Sentence examples for to trickster from inspiring English sources
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.
The protagonists of these stories from south to north, Coyote, Mink, and Raven vary from culture hero to trickster.
His own records subsequently leaped from homemade techno-melancholia to trickster raids on folk, glitch-pop and synthesised "analogue baroque".
In the sequel to "Trickster's Choice," Aly Homewood leads the movement to give the Copper Isles a new queen.
Richard Nicoll went one step further and collaborated with Disney to create a fibre-optic slip dress in homage to trickster fairy Tinkerbell.
But in its audacity, it seems more akin to tricksters who tested the limits of the World Trade Center in the 1970's, including Philippe Petit, who walked a high wire strung between the towers.
He notes that "where someone's sense of honorable behaviour has left him unable to act, trickster will appear to suggest an amoral action, something right/wrong that will get life going again".
In the crossover event Countdown to Final Crisis (2007), Oracle dispatches the Question and Batwoman to capture Trickster and Piper following their role in the murder of Bart Allen.
There's a liberating quality to these trickster puppets, but also something a little scary.
Children and parents will have fun predicting how Lapin escapes, but won't be surprised when he immediately returns to his trickster ways.
Shapeshifters are common throughout world mythology, from the Japanese hengeyokai to the trickster Coyote of Native American folklore, but none have received the cinematic (or, in the case of Warren Zevon, musical) attention that werewolves have.
It is now thought likely that Wilkes had in fact himself been deceived, the victim of a mirage bred by cloud vapour and refracted light, peculiar to the trickster optics of the Antarctic.
