Hae Nang Maew Ritual [Eng]

Hae nang maew ritual is a ritual of Krog Pra people. In the year of lacking rain the villagers will parade a cat to call the rain for their field. The villagers begin the ritual with finding female cats and put her into the basket or a kind of bamboo basket. Insert a stick of wood to the basket and parade the cat from house to house. In front of the parade there is a man who carries a footed tray and calling to invite the other villagers to join the parade and there are also many numbers of tom-toms. The very important things in the parade are a figure of the clouds, men and women genitals, which are made from the clay in different shapes. The parade goes to every houses in the village if it is no rain coming they will do all of this again in the next day or soon.