The present volume is an abridged and introduced edition by Eva Gillies of the major work "Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande," first published in 1937, which has since established the undeniable reputation of the prominent English social anthropologist E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973). This monograph is part of Evans-Pritchard's extensive publications, which are the result of the intensive ethnological field research he conducted in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan during the 1920s and 1930s, during which he studied not only the Zande but also the societies of the Nuer, Anuak, and Luo. Evans-Pritchard's work reveals the internal logic of the belief in witchcraft and magic, a belief deeply rooted in the worldview and social reality of many African societies.