In his Seyahatnâme (Book of Travels), Evliya Çelebi tells stories about witches, vampires and wizards. The context and place of these tales should be reviewed with a fictional approach instead of being labelled as mere "exaggerations". Using a close reading technique, this paper focuses on three extraordinary incidents that Evliya Çelebi experienced, and the context of these incidents within different "Books". The element of "fear" will be explored regarding the tales on the war of witches flying on various objects in a Circassian village in the seventh book, a witch who turns into a chicken in a Bulgarian village in the third book and a Kalmuk Tatarian wizard making a weather spell to freeze a river in the eight book. By putting forth the common features between these tales, this paper attempts to demonstrate how, from a fictive point of view, Evliya Çelebi makes use of supernatural narratives in folk tradition and at which points he deviates from them. The fictional style of Evliya Çelebi will be analyzed by mainly focusing on the role of amusement, egzotism and parody in breaking the monotony of narration
