どらもえもん

これは凄いぞ。「どらえもん」は神になったか。
干ばつの続くタイで、ドラえもんが雨乞いの儀式に使われた 
 儀式は、タイ北部のプレー県で行われた。 
成長したとうもろこしが、日照りのため枯れ始めたことで、儀式が執り行われることになった。
6 月29日BBC報道

Villagers in drought-affected northern Thailand have used a toy of a popular cartoon cat to perform a rain ritual - in case anyone complained about them using a real animal, it's reported.
Ordinarily, a live cat would be used as part of the ritual to pray for rain, but locals were worried about being accused of animal cruelty, the Thai Rath website reports. Instead, they turned to the Japanese manga character Doraemon - a time-travelling robotic cat - which was duly loaded into a wooden cage and carried around the village in Phrae province.