Touchés par une grave sécheresse, des agriculteurs indiens ont demandé à leurs filles célibataires de labourer la terre toutes nues dans l'espoir d'embarasser les Dieux de la météo et les pousser à faire tomber la précieuse pluie!
Même si aucune goûte de pluie n'est tombée pour le moment, les fermiers jurent que leurs belles filles continueront à labourer la terre toutes nues jusqu'à ce que les Dieux de la météo soient assez énervés pour faire tomber la pluie en abondance!
Naked girls plow fields for rain
Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday.
Witnesses said the naked girls in Bihar state plowed the fields and chanted ancient hymns after sunset to invoke the gods. They said elderly village women helped the girls drag the plows.
"They (villagers) believe their acts would get the weather gods badly embarrassed, who in turn would ensure bumper crops by sending rains," Upendra Kumar, a village council official, said from Bihar's remote Banke Bazaar town.
"This is the most trusted social custom in the area and the villagers have vowed to continue this practice until it rains very heavily."
India this year suffered its worst start to the vital monsoon rains in eight decades, causing drought in some states.
source : Reuters
Même si aucune goûte de pluie n'est tombée pour le moment, les fermiers jurent que leurs belles filles continueront à labourer la terre toutes nues jusqu'à ce que les Dieux de la météo soient assez énervés pour faire tomber la pluie en abondance!
Naked girls plow fields for rain
Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday.
Witnesses said the naked girls in Bihar state plowed the fields and chanted ancient hymns after sunset to invoke the gods. They said elderly village women helped the girls drag the plows.
"They (villagers) believe their acts would get the weather gods badly embarrassed, who in turn would ensure bumper crops by sending rains," Upendra Kumar, a village council official, said from Bihar's remote Banke Bazaar town.
"This is the most trusted social custom in the area and the villagers have vowed to continue this practice until it rains very heavily."
India this year suffered its worst start to the vital monsoon rains in eight decades, causing drought in some states.
source : Reuters
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