RAIN-MAKING BUSES.
?At Samara • not - long ago six peasants were tried and . sentenced to terms of ; imprisonment for <' digging up a dead ■* body and floating it down ' the Volga.V The man had died of -delirium tremens, and it is a. widespread belief in Russia that ,to throw the dead • body of - a drunkard into the river will bring rain. Consequently' this typo or crime - recurs when there is a prolonged drought., : : In ; Southern ' India the gigantic figure of a woman is. stretched on a low open fourwheeled carriage, which is dragged round the streets by.' the peasantry, accompanied by ear-splitting tom-toms, /drums, and bugles. This/performance is , said to bring about ' the breaking -of a drought....; ." When rain is { wanted very badly' in the Punjab, a native - woman * will " drag a plough. across a field by night, meantime sprinkling it with water. ' ; ; . In East Africa, among the Mombazzaus, the priests bathe as,a rain charm, while the aborigines of Australia burn human hair in the hope that :it will; bring about a downfall.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 21 (Supplement)
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171RAIN-MAKING BUSES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 21 (Supplement)
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