>>1116160The first folk here we have is a guy by the name of "Marko Kraljević"
He existed in real life, and we don't know much about him other than:
He lived in the 14th century, started out as a Turkish rebel, then became their Vassal and then died while fighting the Vallachians.
Now, there's a shit tone of stories about him, one of them being "Marko drinks vine during the Rammadan". Bassiacly in the story, he fought a battle against the Turks and then, as an act of deffiance, he proceeded to drink vine during the month of Rammadan (this is because the Turks are muslims and he wanted to offend them). There's an absolute fuck load of stories about this motherfucker so I can't tell all of them.
Now, in real life he became a vassal to the ottomans after being a rebel.
So you might ask why is he a folk hero.
Well bassiacly, after his death, the Battle of Ankara happened.
And the Ottomans were too weak to hold their territories in Serbia, so Serbia broke away from the Empire
It is because he was a rebel, and then died just in time for Serbia to become it's country, that he became a folk hero.
Sorry if it took long to write.
So, what do you think about our most well known folk hero?
