Sentence examples for the trickster from inspiring English sources

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the trickster

noun

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.

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The trickster was born.

Jim Carrey is the Trickster.

But the trickster needn't be a fox.

Among the trickster stories, the Coyote cycle is well developed.

The trickster has been seething and plotting ever since.

He is most commonly known as the Trickster.

Hanuman, the trickster monkey god, would be proud.

Equally, alongside the trickster image of Malcolm is one of stern moral seriousness and rectitude.

How much of Young the Author is in the trickster tradition?

Commenting on the trickster Autolycus, Forman advises, "Beware of trusting feigned beggars or fawning fellouse".

As the world was being formed, Iktoma the trickster made trouble wherever he could.

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