Антиката во Македонија во записите на Кузман Шапкарев
The Antiquity in Macedonia in the Records of Kuzman Shapkarev

Summary/Abstract: Kuzman A. Shapkarev has left very interesting records of traditions, beliefs and mythological stories for the antiquity in Macedonia in the huge collected folk material funds. For the earliest history of the Macedonian spaces he recorded the tradition of the old ethnic population Ezerci which inhabited the coastal area of the Ohrid Lake. Attached to it are also the folk beliefs for the giants as very tall and mighty heroes and for the Emperor Alexander III of Macedon as the inventor of the wars, which is actually a small fragment of the well known motif for the quest of live (immortal) water in the Alexander Romance. Shapkarev announces that he heard the stories for Alexander III of Macedon from his father Anastas which he certainly learned from someone older in his family. The traditions of the Ohrid settlement Hermeleia, where the Christian saint St. Erasmus preached as well as the tradition of the Prespa villages Istok and German as ostensible birthplaces of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and his regiment commander Velizarius, are particularly interesting.

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