The frog worship is being organized with the traditional belief that rainfall would take place if the frogs are worshipped.
The Tharus who are better known as the ´sons of the soil´ are organizing this worship thinking that no one except god can remove this drought after the maize and paddy seedlings cultivated by farmers started drying up due to the drought.
As part of the frog worship ritual, women dressed as men will catch live frogs from the nearest ponds, the frogs would be anointed for worship and given a treat of cooked rice, vegetables and fruits before bidding them farewell.
The worship is organized during the night and the women also plough the fields the very night in the belief that doing so would bring rain.
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