Ture is a character in the folklore of the Zande people of North Central Africa.
A trickster figure, he is "the chief character in Zande folktales",[1] in which he employs what among the Azande is called sanza, or speech with a double meaning.
[3] In one Zande animal story, he is named in a short song as someone who might call a child to entice it away from her mother.
"[1] A collection of Zande stories about Ture, and the most important source of them, Sangba Ture, was published by the missionary Mrs. Edward Clive Gore in 1921, and republished in either 1951 or 1954 (by Canon Riley); the first and revised editions were published by the Sheldon Press in London.
According to Evans-Pritchard, many of the tales in her collection were written down by a Zande at a nearby Catholic mission, and then loaned to a Major Larken, a district commissioner for the British Colonial Service, who in turn gave them to Gore.