Panchayats

"to those women who relate these stories there is no question as to truth of that experience in their minds.'My name is Sushilla and I live on de outskirts of Trinidad in a little village near Fyzabad. And where we live was on a little trace. Dat is what we call a path or ting dat goes into forested area and tings. You maybe would call it a street.We lived way down in de back of de trace with lots of mango trees, lots of forested area. Dere were trees we call 'silk cotton tree' where dere are spirits in it. You don go by dose trees, but dere were lots. Men are scared to cut it down, too, because of the spirits dere. So it stayed dere, and you always scared about the bushes.My father used to always say, 'don go to de bush.'And my mom used to say, 'Don go just so and stoop down and urine by de side in de bushes, because dere are evil spirits and dere are some dat will like us and tings.' "