For elephant healthy praying ceremony, invited magicians (shamans) must be the good and reputable ones who well known the local people’s traditional customs. The sorcerer with local elephant caretakers come to the ceremony with gifts, they enjoy food and drinks with the family.
The ceremony is considered luxurious and decent when home owners do celebrations with buffalos. Normally, with pigs, if not also be chickens,… depending on elephant owner’s family circumstance. The mandatory gifts for ceremony included at least 3 jars of wine, a bowl of rice with wax candle, a bowl of cooked rice, a calabash with water and some dishes of pork’s puddings.
Elephant healthy praying ceremony is more of good, showing people’s love for animals and therefore regarding people to care and protect the elephants. This ceremony is bearing deep local cultures, it should be preserved, protected and promoted.
