SHUMBAY

SHUMBAY is a folklore character from Bashkir fairytales. It is a collective image of a cunning liar. The same-titled fairytale tells about S. He is a joker trying to appear like a crank: bay’s wife forbids her husband to employ the person named S., but S. makes the bay to break the prohibition by convincing him that all men in the village have the same name; he also creates the situation when the wife shows infidelity to her husband. Kirey Mergen uses the plots of fairytales about S. in his comedy called “Shumbay”. The character is common in folklore of many peoples.