Şüräle (pronounced [ʃyræˈle]; Cyrillic: Шүрәле, also spelled Shurale in English via Russian Шурале), is a male monster (a forest demon) in Bashkir and Tatar mythology. According to legends, Şüräle lives in forests. He has long fingers, a horn on its forehead, and a woolly body. He lures victims to a thicket and tickles them to death.
Şüräle closely resembles other similar characters from the folklore such as Arçuri of the Chuvashes, Pitsen (Picen) of the Siberian Tatars and Yarımtıq of the Ural Tatars.
Inspired by the Tatar folklore, Ghabdulla Tuqay wrote a poem Şüräle[1]. Şüräle was Tuqay's pseudonym.
The first Tatar ballet by Farit Yarullin had its name after Şüräle.