Friday 1 July 2011

Trickster's characteristics


  1. fundamentally ambiguous and anomalous

  2. deceiver and trick-player

  3. shape-shifter

  4. situation-inverter

  5. messenger and imitator of the gods

  6. sacred and/or lewed bricoleur

often, the bending/breaking of rules takes the form of tricks or thievery. Tricksters can be cunning or foolish or both.

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