Сказание за произхода на самодивите
Story about the origin of samodiva

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses new data on the narrative about the daughter of Alexander named Panora who with a trick takes the living water, drinks it, and turns into a wood-nimph. All Old Church Slavonic copies are described, compared together and an origin of the narrative is tried to be reconstructed. The author has taken into account a Pseudo-Callisthenes version of Alexander Romance, which based on the Alexander legends of the Middle Ages. The episode about ‘dried fishes’ in “post β” tradition (γ и λ) is short, but individual motifs have a parallel with the Slavonic text: Alexander’s daughter drinks the living water and turns into a mermaid (νεραΐδα). The time of the origin of the Slavonic version is possibly not earlier of the en

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