Damurai and Batauli Damurai - This is celebrated in May at the time of sowing of the first rice crop. A male goat and a cock are sacrificed and the ancestral spirits are worshiped. Batauli - It follows Hero around the month of July. This is also associated with the fertility of the crops. Each cultivator sacrifices a fowl and after some mysterious rites a wing is stripped off and inserted in the cleft of a bamboo and struck up in the rice field and dung heap. Do any of you know about some more Santhal festivals? Can you share about some of them? |