title: Thằng Bờm
text: # Thằng Bờm
  
  Thằng Bờm (Bờm the Fool, Bờm the village idiot) is a Vietnamese folktale character.
  
  ## Content
  
  The Thằng Bờm stories, along with poems like the satirical Truyện Trê Cóc, were among the folktales reanalysed by socialist scholars.
  
  