In Yangpang, Arun Rural Municipality-1, Bhojpur, Arjun Jogi is working to keep the traditional Pheri ritual alive, Onlinekhabar and Gorkhapatra reported on Kartik 20 (November 6). Jogi said he has performed Pheri for two decades, going around the villages at night in Kartik, Chaitra and Shravan. According to the reports, there is a long-held belief that the rite brings households happiness, peace and prosperity, and villagers give the practitioner grain and cash according to their means.
Jogi said 18 to 20 households in Yangpang once practised Pheri and that the number has fallen to two people. He said the new generation is moving away from traditional occupations, and that young people need to be made aware of the ritual's importance.
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Arjun Jogi of Yangpang, Bhojpur, is trying to keep the traditional Pheri ritual alive; he says 18 to 20 households there once practised it and only two people now do.
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