**7. Example of games**

## **7.1 Game name: qochra**

Horma for the Kabyles means honor, which symbolizes the woman and the house. The respectability of the man, which is symbolized by the 'Nif", consists in protecting this honor from all defilement. Failure to meet this standard is for the individual to condemn himself to social suicide (isolation and shame). In this "Qochra" game, the sociological weight of this value is indisputable and is played by children.

### *7.1.1 Characteristic of the game*

Flat terrain Material: A cork ball and a curved end stick Period: The first days of spring Social network: One against all Gender: Male Start of the game:

A group of players with a curved end stick in a circle around a cork ball. At the draw, they designate the father. The latter is placed near the ball (his daughter).

Procedure: The father's goal is to defend the ball by trying to prevent it from going outside the circle, which represents the house. The opponents, with their sticks, instead try to push the ball out of the circle. If the ball or the father (with his stick) directly touches a player saying, "This is your daughter," the affected player becomes the father of the ball. In the event that a player grabs the lost girl and takes her to wife without the father managing to bring her home, the other players say that he is getting old, and they taunt his weakness by singing: "He got old, he got old, he went to Beni Kelleb and he ate a whole cake with a gourd of whey". They also sometimes tie the ball under the shirt of the loser, who is then identified with a girl who has been made a child. The emotions in this game are very strong, and it happens that the father humiliated by the words of his opponents retires in.

Tears, also affected by the dishonor of the illegitimate pregnancy.
