A few years back I was at a conference and ran into a fellow Guyanese. He told me about his experience at a GNS interior camp. He got attacked by a poisonous snake, had to eat food that was kept near pork and saw a few girls in the camp being possessed by demons when they were sitting around a camp fire on a Saturday night. It was not a good experience for him, which he blamed on the PNC. Some Guyanese just don't want to be in the interior away from their families
Cultural sensitivities need to be respected.
Regarding the demon girls, well maybe the snake poison got to him or the Maha Kali got yo the girls.
I don't get this, don't want to be away. These were most young men, what the deal. Fine, then let them pay full cost for their UG education. I rather think he was an exception and that banna sound "anti-mannish".
Makadingo lived at the Kimbia Lake. Legend had it that he was an Amerindian who came home and saw some Dutchman on top of his wife. He killed them both and swore vengeance on any female by the lake, or any stretch if water. Makadingo attacked vulnerable women and gave them phenomenal strength. Certain drum beats used to set West Berbice black women off as well.
Antabanta lived in Tumatumari. Don't know the story behind that. The one Antabanta attack was on a man. Personally I thought he was epileptic but those spirit people think differently.
Its Makadingo which was harder to explain as during their demonic possession some females began to babble in languages. Kind of like the Exorcist.
Exposure to this was interesting to G/town middle class people who often assume that all Guyanese operate from a modern "western" standpoint. I will suggest that it is important for those delivering health care to know that this isn't true.