 Johann Georg von Hahn recorded one of the first such oral traditions from a Catholic priest named Gabriel in Shkodra in 1850.According to this account, the first direct male ancestor of the Hoti was "Geg Lazri", son of "Lazër Keqi", son of a Catholic Albanian named "Keq" who fleeing from Ottoman conquest settled in the Slavic-speaking area that would become the historical Piperi tribal region in what is now Montenegro.His sons, the brothers "Lazër Keqi", "Ban Keqi" (ancestor of Triepshi), "Merkota Keqi, Kaster Keqi" and "Vas Keqi" (ancestor of Vasojevići) had to abandon the village after committing murder against the locals, but "Keq" and his younger son "Piper Keqi" remained there and "Piper Keqi" became the direct ancestor of the Piperi tribe.