Gudil is the Tabasaran personification of the rain, invoked in the drought-breaking procession that bears his name. A boy or young man is wrapped from head to foot in green boughs, roped at the waist so as to be wholly hidden, and led by a company of children and adolescents from courtyard to courtyard while they sing rain-songs; householders pour water over the figure and give gifts, the wetting being sympathetic magic to bring the sky's rain. The rite is called gudil in the northern Tabasaran lands and peshapa (peshapai) in the south, the same figure under two regional names. Comparable rain-mummers recur across southern Daghestan among the Kaitag, Lezgins and other Lezgic peoples.