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Trick, Trickery Proverbs : World Proverbs
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A trick is clever only once. (Yiddish) One trick is met by another. (Spanish) Trickery comes back to its master....
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Tricksters Summary
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Trickster is the name given to a type of mythic figure distinguished by his skill at trickery and deceit as well as by his prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts. The myths of many cultures portray such a comic and amoral character,...
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Trickster Information
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In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays pranks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and norms of behaviour. While the trickster crosses various...


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Studies in American Indian Literatures
Trickster of Literacy
10/01/2006: 727 words, approx. 2 pages
When James Welch died, the matter of his passing was discussed in an inadvertently comic mode in Missoula at the gym where I used to work out in the mornings. A small coffee and juice bar served as an informal gathering spot to glance...
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History In Africa
The Tricksters Of Karamoja
01/01/2007: 2,004 words, approx. 7 pages
I Karamojong oral tradition provides several trickster characters such as the rabbit, the self-appointed moral guard. This rabbit pretends to defend the weak and die powerless, yet secretly steals from them, but in the end gets exposed for what it really is. Then...
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Columbia J-School: At Stake, 'The Value of Our $60,000 Degree'
12/4/2006: 455 words, approx. 2 pages
Two girls scrambled to the door when they spotted reporters lingering in the hallway. One shrieked, "So they can just stand here and listen to everything?" The department intern, guarding the entrance with her trusty V.I.P. student list, shooed reporters away from the door. Word...
 


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