Hae nang maew is a ritual of people in Northerner .In the year of lacking rain the villagers will parade a cat to call the rain for their field. The villagers begin the ritual with finding females cat and put her in to the basket or a kind of bamboo basket. Insert a stick of wood to the basket and parade the cat from house to house. The parade consists of, in front of the parade there is a man who carries a footed tray and calling to invite the other villagers to join the parade. Then the villagers will shout the words of Hae nang maew ritual with cheerful. When the parade reached each house, the owner of the house is going to throw the water to the cat in the basket till it wet and give the members of the parade prizes, which is an alcoholic beverage, food, etc. The parade goes to every houses in the village if it is no rain coming they will do all of this again in the next day or soon. The reason that they use a female cat because the villagers believe that the male god will send the rain, which is his broth, to the angel of the earth, Who is the female god. She will receive his broth (or the rain) into her womb. After raining the plants will grow very well. The villagers will have enough food to eat. Hae nang maew ritual is in July-August. This ceremony has died out but it still shows us the unity and the old way to solve the farming problems of the villagers.
Another popular superstitions is Rocket Festival, is a merit-making ceremony traditionally practiced by ethnic Lao people throughout much of Isan and Laos, in numerous villages and municipalities near the beginning of the wet season. Celebrations typically include preliminary music and dance performances, competitive processions of floats, dancers and musicians on the second day, and culminating on the third day in competitive firings of home-made rockets.