 The name of the first ancestor, "Keq", which means "bad" in Albanian, is given in Malësia to only children or to children from families with very few children (due to infant mortality).In those families, an "ugly" name ("i çudun") was given as a spoken talisman to protect the child from the "evil eye.Edith Durham in her own travels in 1908 in "High Albania" recorded a story about a "Gheg Lazar", who arrived thirteen generations prior, fleeing from Ottoman conquest from an unknown region of "Bosnia".