Women Strip to Appease Rain Gods

August 22nd, 2006 by Maria

Dozens of Nepali women stripped naked and ploughed their fields in west Nepal, hoping to appease the gods and get some much needed rain.

About 50 women in two villages in Kapilvastu district, 190 km (120 miles) west of Kathmandu, resorted to the desperate move at night on Friday as days of prayers and Hindu ceremonies failed to bring rains for the parched paddy crop, a newspaper reported.

“This is our last weapon, we used it, and there was light rainfall,” Nepali daily Rajdhani quoted one of the women as saying.

Via Yahoo News.

Wow, that definitely sounds cool. I hope I was there as a reporter so that I could take some photos to show you :) I know this sounds crazy, but you don’t get many chance to see something like this in your life time, right?

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