Humor and wit characters

8th-century classical Arabic poet

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fictional character from German folklore

cycle of Old French fables

thumb|Juha with his donkey Giufà, or Giucà as he is referred to in some areas, is a character of Sicilian folklore. His antics have been retold and memorized through centuries of oral tradition. Although the anecdotes from his life mainly revolve around the southern Italian and Sicilian lifestyle, his character traits are visible in the folk characters of many Mediterranean cultures. In fact, scholars suggest that the character Giufà developed from stories of Nasrudin, a Turkish folk character. It is believed that during Islamic rule of the island of Sicily, stories of this manknown in Arabic

Bulgarian character of folklore

fictional character

kazakh folk fairy tale

Jewish prankster (1757–1811)

Păcală (Romanian, from a păcăli, "to dupe"; Romanian Cyrillic: Пъкалъ; sometimes rendered Pâcală or Pîcală) is a fictional character in Romanian folklore, literature and humor. Primarily associated with Transylvania and Oltenia, he is depicted as a native of Vaideeni, located in an area of contact between those two regions. An irreverent young man, seemingly a peasant, he reserves contempt and irony for the village authorities (whether Orthodox priest, boyar or judge), but often plays the fool, or displays an erratic and criminal behavior that scholars attribute to the eclecticism of sources w

giant from Antwerpian folklore

thumb|250px|Title page of Die Schildburger, 1854The picture illustrates the tale how the Schildburger wanted to feed a bull with the grass on the roof The Schildbürger ("residents of Schilda") are residents of Schilda, a fictional (not the actual Schilda) German town of fools, a butt of jokes in German Volksbuch (chapbook) tradition corresponding to the Wise Men of Gotham in English-language tradition.

Kabayan is a Sundanese folkloristic character depicted as a humble yet witty man

Bulă () is a fictional stock character of Romanian humor.