Fondness for the old system is often referred to as “Yugonostalgia”.]

Signare were romanticised by witnesses who encountered them as well as in historical memory. One of the French officials of the Senegal company dedcribed them collectively as tender, charming and faithful, with a certain 'sweetness' — but also 'an insurmountable urge for love and lust'.

And I will make thee beds of roses, / And a thousand fragrant posies;

In this context, one could conceivably hold onto the theology that baptism is essential for salvation.