The so called ‘problem of evil’ played a crucial role in the development of Western ethical and moral thinking. Conceptualized as a radical and exclusive opposition of ‘good and evil’ it has been a powerful instrument of ethical and moral evaluation and motivation. In this guise it has been part and parcel of the missionary project brought to the Qaqet-Baining on the Gazelle Peninsula since 1896/98 by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. This missionary project was confronted with an ethical and moral praxis which was well aware of the existence of ‘evil’, conceived of in the broad sense of comprising all kinds of suffering, harm and disaster regardless of what is believed to be the cause for it. However, the ways to conceive of and deal with these experiences of ‘evil’ among the Qaqet cannot be reduced to the radical and exclusive opposition of ‘good and evil’. In appropriating Christianity Catholic Qaqet did not so much accept Christian ideas on ‘good and evil’ in the form of concrete manifestations. Rather, Christian ideas provide a new framework of interpretation used to understand their own concepts of ‘evil’ spirits, places of the death and stories of legendary heroes. In my presentation I would like to discuss some of these practical and discursive interpretations and the conclusions to drawn for the ‘problem of evil’ as ethnographical phenomenon and as analytical concept.