Bru

The Bru religion is the traditional animism of the Bru, a Katuic-speaking people whose villages stand mostly along rivers, in the uplands of Quang Binh and Quang Tri in Vietnam, in Savannakhet in Laos and in Sakon Nakhon in Thailand. They honour their ancestors and the spirits of rice and fire, and hold relics and fragments of ancient weapons and household objects sacred. In more traditional villages the headman is also the village spiritual adviser.

Bru oral tales make the hare the cleverest of animals and the tiger the hero. The Ma Coong, a Bru group in Quang Binh, hold a drum-beating festival on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month to welcome the new moon.