Rục people

The Rục people are a sub-ethnic group within the Chut people. When first encountered by North Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam War, the Ruc were hunter-gatherer tribes, living in caves in eastern Quảng Bình province. Since then, as of 2006, the government has made many attempts to relocate them (at least 93 households, 414 people).[1]

They conduct shamanistic rituals that are said to allow them to control animals and to have caused harm to a person at one point.[2]

References
  1. "Sự thật về những cơn đói của đồng bào Rục" [Chut people in famine] (in Vietnamese). Oct 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-01-08.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  2. http://www.vietnamheritage.com.vn/pages/en/2231410249219-The-mysterious-witchcraft-of-the-Ruc-people.html


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