Şüräle

Farmers and shepherds would make pacts with the leshy to protect their crops and sheep.

Şüräle has many tricks, including leading peasants astray, making them sick, or tickling them to death.

Inspired by the Tatar folklore, Ghabdulla Tuqay wrote a poem Şüräle [tt].

[3] The first Tatar ballet by Farit Yarullin Şüräle [tt] was based on the poem.

In 2014 Tatarmultfilm studio released a Tatar-language animated film Шүрәле which includes an episode how a woodcutter tricked shurale.