THE AZANDE HAVE A NUMBER OF FOLK-TALES, most of which relate the adventures of a character called Ture. Nine of the Ture tales were published in I92I (La Langue des Azande, vol. I) by Mgr. C. R. Lagae with a French translation, which was made for purposes of gramniatical analysis and instruction and would probably be difficult to follow for someone who did not also know Zande. Canon E. C. Gore published four of these tales in I926 (A Zande Grammar) with an English translation, again with the emphasis on grammatical analysis and instruction. The main collection is that published by Mrs E. C. Gore (Sangba Ture, I93 I, revised edition, by Canon G. Riley I95I) . It consists of fifty tales. They have never been translated, and it would seem unlikely that they ever will be unless I undertake the task myself, and this I am engaged in doing. In addition there is a large number of the tales taken down by Mr Reuben Rikita and myself between the years I927 and 1930, and by Mr Richard Mambia, with the aid of some of his friends, during the last three years. Mr Richard Mambia's collection has been translated by himself (with some minor emendations by me). I am responsible for the translation of Mr Reuben Rikita's texts and my own. None of the texts collected by, or for, me have as yet been published, though some are in publishers' hands. I present four of these tales here, three of them with variants from the I95I edition of Mrs Gore's untranslated collection. They are presented solely for their intrinsic interest as stories, and problems relating to variants, structure, and other aspects of the tales are not discussed.