During Ottoman rule, the village did not accept Turks at all, despite their hospitability. There is a tale, that one night, two Turks decide to "visit" in a house in Popintsi. They demand that the family in the house prepares a large amount of food for them: bread, banitsa, and many other things. At that time, the mother, daughter and boy were present in the house—the father was not present. Suddenly, the Turks begin to eye the daughter, and the intelligent mother tells the girl to get the father, while giving them copious amounts of wine and rakia, and they soon become drunk. The father then came and quickly slaughtered the Turks. They buried the bodies in the house—as during that time, the village huts had only dirt floors—and covered them with clay. The victims' fellow Turks then came to try to locate their friends and were unable to. From then on, Turks no longer "visited" the village.