Bingham Bulletin | 1928-08-30 | Page 4 | Odd Forms of Prayer for Parching Fields

Odd Form of Prayer for Parching Field i Many countries bold odd ceremonies to end drought. The Chinese take their dragon god around In a procession, proces-sion, and beat blm soundly when he Ignores their prayers for rain. The Bant us of Delagoa bay sing songs at their drled-up wells and make mothers moth-ers who have twins carry the children around the parched fields. In Greece they send children marching round all the wells and springs, nnder the leadership lead-ership of a girl adorned with flowers, who sings at each halting place. The same cuntora prevails In Yugo-olavta, where a little girl called the Dodota is clothed from bead to foot In grass and flowers, and leads her companions compan-ions through their native village, stopping stop-ping at each house, so that the house wife may pour a pall of water over her, and singing the good news that the rain has come, even though it is usuully far away.