Dobur puja is one of the traditional spiritual rituals of the Miching people. This Puja is celebrated before the start of agricultural activities in late May for the welfare of the people and for the good harvest of the crops.
On the morning of this puja, the village priest takes the village youths and first surrounds the village. They forbid people from other villages to enter the village on the day of the puja.
On that day, the village priest takes the youths of the village to every household in the village, goes around the houses, prays for good fortune, takes the food items donated by the hosts, worships on the banks of the river and eats.
They forbid the entire village to eat any oily food on that day.
The puja uses a pig, several chickens, traditional poro apong, nogin apong made by the people themselves and various leaves brought from the jungle required for the puja leaf ritual.
This worship is performed especially to appease the sun god.
At the end of the puja, the village youths go hunting in the jungle and return to visit the poro apong wheelbarrow and there is a folk belief that if the footprints of people appear on the basket, it is believed to bring a message of unexpected accidents.
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