in hungarian, the village is called székelyszáldobos, meaning "the only székely drummer". a legend explains this name by the only survivor of the mongol-tatar invasion who was a drummer. according to another legend, this village appeared after the mongol-tatar invasion, when the population of the earlier villages dobó and valál resettled here. many mineral water springs exist around the village. some people get their mineral water by lowering a bottle attached to a stick into a well near the south end of the village. there is a significant (and growing) gypsy-roma population near the north end of the village.