The Xooy Ceremony is a divination ceremony organized before the rainy season in village squares among Serer community in west-central Senegal. During this long nocturnal gathering, master seers each in turn step into a designated circle, deliver predictions before a rapturous audience and to the rhythm of the drums.
The Xooy ceremony provides answers to major issues of the community such as rain, epidemics or diseases and cures, and it is a major event in the national cultural calendar that expresses the cultural heritage of the Serer people (West African ethnoreligious group).

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Xooy, a divination ceremony among the Serer of Senegal was inscribed in 2013 on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Senegal.