Namarda is one of the named ogre-figures of the Zaghawa oral-tale repertoire recorded by Marie-Jose and Joseph Tubiana. He belongs to the corpus's population of devouring ogres, horned spirits of the bush, many-headed monsters and cruel giants whose hunger falls especially on children, and stands close to the recurrent tale-motif of the tyrant. Throughout this repertoire such an overbearing power is characteristically overcome not by force but by cunning, the weapon of the weak, which the Zaghawa tales rank beside courage as a cardinal virtue.