And on the hustings and in the pamphlets, the Puritan independents thundered that anyone who voted against protectorate-friendly MPs would be condemned as forsworn witches.
On the way back to Algiers, Sofiane was quiet, and angry that the match – which he, having forsworn sheep fighting, wouldn't have watched anyway – had been cancelled.
In others, such as the liberal organic-food-and-yoga belt along the coast, parents may forswear vaccines because they see the shots as dangerous, and the diseases they protect against as mild.