The paper highlights the issue of adapting historical knowledge to the current conditions and projecting modern concepts into the distant past, and of evaluating past events ethically with modern criteria. It presents the origins of a fictional horror story about the bloody events related to the Christianization of the Eastern Alpine area in the 8th century, which was the inspiration for the poem “The Baptism at the Savica” by the poet France Prešeren. The article problematizes the use of the names of concrete historical figures to designate (negative) current phenomena, introduced by the philosopher and academician Tine Hribar in his book Slovene Schisms and Slovene Reconciliation and in the media.