trickster
Noun
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Noun
trickster (plural tricksters)
- (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others; any similar figure in literature.
- 1991, Alan R. Velie (compiler and editor), American Indian Literature: An Anthology, Revised edition, page 44 ↗,
- The trickster is one of the oldest and most widespread of mythological and literary figures. […] As the name implies, the trickster is, on one level—probably the most important—an amoral practical joker who wanders about playing pranks on unsuspecting victims […] With all the fluctuations, certain things about the trickster are predictable: he is always a wanderer, always hungry, and usually oversexed.
- Tricksters abound in folktales […] .
- 1991, Alan R. Velie (compiler and editor), American Indian Literature: An Anthology, Revised edition, page 44 ↗,
- One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
- One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
- An impish or playful person.
- A fraud person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain.
- Italian: folletto, spiritello, gnomo, coboldo, diavoletto
- Russian: три́кстер
- Spanish: trasgo
- French: filou, tricheur
- Italian: imbroglione, truffatore, lestofante
- Russian: ловка́ч
- Italian: indiavolato
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