trickster
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- noun
- /ˈtrɪkstər/
- Literature
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embaucador
- Relying on language games and comic narrative, the trickster is a healer and liberator of tribal cultures.
- trickster tales
- trickster Coyote
- trickster god
And yet God is pliable, trickster, teacher, chaos, clay.
- And yet God is pliable, trickster, teacher, chaos, clay.
- So next thing up is a kind of delightful archetype called the Trickster.
- But you know, you describe the Fool, the archetypical figure of the trickster and the Fool as the precursor to the savior, to the Redeemer.
- Holly Black wrote him to be a very like how fairies are meant to be, which are tricksters and they like pranks and they aren't very nice.
- Painting the eye of the storm on a shield, cutting the trickster out of black and blue paper and lashing him with glue to the mast of his last ship.
- Yeah, in, in, in other pantheons, it's going to be some other trickster sort of sort of fellow.
- There is a a really fun book just you may have already come across this, but Trickster makes this world made this world by Louis Hyde.
Examples
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In many Indigenous stories, Coyote is portrayed as a trickster who uses his cunning to outsmart his enemies.
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You mean like a Trickster God?
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What does this Trickster do?
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You got a trickster on your hands.
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In Native American stories, as elsewhere, the trickster is often the underdog, never the most powerful or beautiful animal.
Academic text (1991) -
Anansi was a storyteller and a trickster.
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Coyote, in some stories, was just a playful trickster, but he also caused trouble and hardship for people.
Fiction book (1993) -
In indigenous cultures worldwide, tricksters open gateways of awareness and insights.
Academic text (2000) -
Well, the local Native Americans believed it was the incarnation of Marconda, God of Chaos and Mayhem, mischievous trickster who haunted the forest.
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The trickster figure in folklore often teaches valuable lessons through their deceptive antics.
Synonyms
A person who tricks others by saying things that are not true
A person who tricks others using clever talk to take their money
Antonyms
How Mischievous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Trickster in myth comes from the same parts: trick, meaning 'to play clever or harmful tricks', and -ster, meaning 'person'. So a mythic trickster is a mischievous spirit or animal, like the coyote or raven, who uses tricks to outsmart gods or people.