A legend of Gorski Barkić, an Oćevija carpenter who in 1208 gave shelter to three knights returning from the Holy Land, and of the twelve years he spent with them on the mountain above the village.
A legend of Smiljko Barkić of Oćevija, a weary soldier whose nervous impatience for a rest is said to have helped break the Ottoman line before Vienna in 1683.
A legend of the Barkić line, Oćevija's potters, who over three generations shaped ever more perfect vessels from Fox Hill clay — until, so it's said, Anto's jug rang out in the marketplace of Istanbul.
A legend of Oćevija's wedding-eve custom of breaking a turtle's shell — a superstition said to have turned back an aga's horsemen on a night in 1643.
Oćevija is a village in the Vareš municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This site documents its history, population, and above all its unusual folk traditions and customs.
