Autumn Offering

The ritual of serchoe is conducted in traditional Bhutanese villages as a religious ceremony to protect the crops from natural calamities such as draught, hailstorm or pests. The ritual includes the propitiation of territorial and tutelary deities beseeching them to protect the crops from harmful weather and pests. Some families carried out peaceful fire sacrifice rituals but most people undertake the usual propitiation of the tutelary deities.