Kreung Ethnicity - United Nations in Cambodia

Sen Preh Unh (fire sacrifice)
After clearing all the bushes and trees, villagers burn the area and collect all the
remaining unburned wood. They collect any small half-burnt wood pieces to
be used in a sacrifice called Sen Preh Unh and ask for the healthy growth of
their plants. As in other ceremonies, the sacrifice is a chicken and wine. Finally
they burn the rest of the collected wood. Historically all villagers gather to
perform this sacrifice together.
Sroch Chateu
When farmers prepare seeds for plantation, they perform a sacrificing
ceremony asking that their seeds grow well and reap good produce. As in other
ceremonies they do this using chicken and wine.
Banh Cheh Teuk
In the middle of the rice production period, the farmer needs to hold another
sacrifice to request that the rice continues to grow free from destruction by
termites or rats. As in other ceremonies this is done using chicken and wine.
Banh Cheh Tum
When the rice is ready for harvesting, the farmer sacrifices a rooster and a hen
with a jar of wine to the spirits asking for well wishes during the harvest.
Banh Pateuk Pateus
This is the last ceremony of the rice plantation calendar, and is held at the
time when all harvested rice is brought into storage.
Other smaller ceremonies
Tatasrast
The villagers conduct this ceremony with the purpose of rejecting all bad luck
and ill fortune to the rice and owners whose property and rice are damaged
by fire or animals. As in other ceremonies they do this using chicken and wine.
Chicken blood is mixed with wine and showered on the site where the fire
burned or the cattle grazed. This sacrifice is performed by those responsible
for the fire or the owners of the cattle that ate rice from another’s farm.
48 Kameng village, Rattanakiri province