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Women's naked farming ritual brings rain August 16 2002 Some 200 women in Nepal who ploughed their fields naked in a desperate attempt to bring rain to their drought-stricken region were rewarded as the monsoon began shortly afterwards, a report said yesterday. The women had last week locked their husbands inside their houses and then stripped off to till their fields at midnight in a bid to appease the Hindu god of rain, Indra. The superstitious women were trying to bring showers to the far western Banke district, where the monsoon had failed to materialize and farmers had been unable to plant rice. Days after the naked plowing, it began raining in western parts of the country and it seemed the rain god Indra was finally appeased, the Nepali-language daily, Nepal Samacharpatra said. Local official Rajesh Kumar Mahato from the neighboring Dhangadhi district told the newspaper some places in the region had 197 mm of rainfall at the weekend. The ritual had worked so well that excessive rainfall caused roads to become flooded. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
