Workers Blame Mass Fainting on ‘Angry Spirit’
After pounding on her chest and demanding a pig’s head, fruits and flowers to be offered to the angry spirit that she believed had taken over her body, garment worker Srey Mom collapsed on the floor of the Global Factory in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district. Exhausted from the “neak-ta” – or spirit – Srey Mom had fainted, setting off another 30 factory workers who also fainted yesterday over a two-hour period. All of the women were taken to the local hospital, and while the Free Trade Union blamed the latest mass-fainting on hysteria and bad air circulation, the factory workers disagreed. …
