Hae-Nang-Maew is a tradition in the North and North-Eastern Thailand.
the people who are the farmers always believed in asking for rain. In some years, when their land is dry or the rain come quite late , people will parade a cat to call the rain around the village. According to popular belief that in general cats do not like to be wet. If the cats are very angry and making loudly, it stand for the rain is coming. For a reason that they use a female cat because the villagers believe that the male god will send the rain to the angel of the earth. This tradition have done from generation to generation because farming depends on the natural rain. So,most villagers have been familiar with this custom since they were young. This shows us the old way to solve the farming problems of the villagers.