Of all their considerable skills, the art of rain-making reigned supreme. ❋ Donna Henes (2011)
In 1891, it hired retired Brigadier General Robert Dyrenforth, a firm believer, to conduct a series of rain-making experiments in Texas to try and settle the argument once and for all. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The story differs slightly in various Huichol communities but Lumholtz observed a special rain-making feast at the conclusion of which messengers were sent out in the four directions with votive offerings to be deposited in sacred places, one of which was the Laguna de Magdalena, about a week's journey south of Huichol country. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Beyond the wife of a former president and a few rain-making lawyers, the cabinet is heavy with public servants. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I mean, this has been a giant rain-making machine. ❋ Unknown (2008)
So, one might believe that the Songkran customs of throwing water is actually a rain-making idea. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Indeed, one rain-making attempt went awry earlier this year when a rocket fell through a villager's roof in northern China. ❋ Unknown (2007)
His work has shown that the art played a fundamental part in the religious lives of its painters, revealing a world behind the rock face where shamans could draw power and bring it back for healing, rain-making and capturing game. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Enter not only Attila with much to be angry about, but his second cousin Zoltan, a peace-loving, rain-making shaman whose father had been killed by Attila. ❋ Leonard, John (2006)
An angry opponent of rain-making in a tribe would be looked upon as were some Greek merchants in England during the Russian war. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He gave us nothing except the assegai, and cattle, and rain-making; and he did not give us hearts like yours. ❋ Unknown (2004)
King Mswati III of Swaziland, whose alleged rain-making powers have failed to stave off the drought facing his hungry people, has just completed the arcane Incwala ritual, meaning he is fit to reign for another year. ❋ Unknown (2002)
They related to issues such as witchcraft and rain-making, powers that were given by law to amakhosi in the apartheid era. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Covington's brain trust seems most excited about the arrival of the entrepreneurial rain-making of Scott F. Smith and Stephen Infante, who work with software and technology companies. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Places of ancestral worship, rain-making ceremonies, and ancestral visitations ... were revered. ❋ Unknown (1993)
You did not even know that your rain-making wizardry had failed. ' ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1989)
Another stone was carefully housed in another village as the representative of a rain-making god. ❋ George Turner (N/A)
The king was anxious for the rain-making incantations to begin, but Mr. Durban put him off. ❋ Victor [pseud.] Appleton (N/A)
