Sora

The Sora, or Savara, are a Munda people of the Eastern Ghats hills in southern Odisha and northern coastal Andhra, whose traditional faith is shamanic. The Sora attribute every natural phenomenon to gods, deities or spirits.

They revere supernatural beings called kittung, who inhabit forests, mountains, villages, rivers and particular places. Sora shamans, the kuran, are usually women who keep the kittung content with yearly rituals, cattle sacrifices, dances and offerings. Traditionally a shaman in trance travels down to the underworld, leaving her body for the dead to speak through, and mourners argue with the dead, laugh at their jokes and weep at their accusations.