This paper explores folk prayers as lived faith among the Buksa tribe of Uttarakhand, with a specific focus on women’s religious songs, chants, and mantra-based practices embedded in everyday life. Moving beyond institutionalized religion, the study examines how Buksa women experience, perform, and transmit spirituality through oral traditions that address daily concerns such as health, protection, agricultural well-being, family harmony, and emotional distress. For Buksa women, faith is not limited to temples or formal rituals but is woven into ordinary moments of domestic work, caregiving, and community interaction.

Central to this lived religious world are Buksaon ki tantrik paramparayain, including dang, devsi, sadhna ke mantar, vashikaran ke mantar, and chants used to counter jadui hawa lagna. Rather than treating these practices as superstition, the paper conceptualizes them as indigenous systems of knowledge and hope through which women negotiate uncertainty, fear, and misfortune. These folk prayers function as mechanisms of healing, emotional reassurance, and moral regulation, allowing women to exercise spiritual agency within a largely patriarchal social structure.