Фолклор и история III: Фолклорни модели за наследяване и трансформация (По материали на Кузман Шапкарев от Самоковско)
Folklore and History III: Folklore Models of Succession and Transformation (Based on Kuzman Shapkarev’s Materials from Samokov Region)

Summary/Abstract: In 1891 Kuzman Shapkarev published three stories and a song from the town of Samokov that was dedicated to the destiny of the last Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Shishman – called by him King Ivan Shishman the Last. In the song recorded in Samokov region, appear both epinom King Ivan Shishman the Last and epinom Pasha Shishmanina, who is an antagonist of the king. It can be assumed that these two epinoms in the legends and songs recorded in Samokov region are a direct echo of the battles of King Ivan Shishman with the Ottomans in the late fourteenth century in Samokov Valley. Who is behind the vague epinom Pasha Shishmanina? Perhaps this is the son of King Ivan Shishman - Alexander, who after his father’s death became a governor of the province of Samsun in Asia Minor, and then in 1413 became a governor of Smyrna. In 1418 he died in a battle.

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