A favorite introduction to African art is folklore involving Anansi the Spider, a trickster known for his great wisdom, said Beth B. Schneider, the museum's education director.
Even though the egregiously misleading excerpt from Shirley Sherrod's 43-minute speech came from Andrew Breitbart, the dirty trickster notorious for hustling skewed partisan videos on Fox News, few questioned its validity.
"Late Night" host Seth Meyers ripped President Donald Trump's former campaign adviser Roger Stone on Monday as "a longtime political dirty trickster known for shady tactics and bizarre outfits".
Beyond that, Virgos are known to be manipulative – all tied up in being ruled by the planet Mercury, AKA the master trickster – and for going to great lengths to maintain their images.
Afterwards my grandmother declared, 'That Mephisto will never set foot in my house again' " — Mephisto being the glittering trickster from hell who bargains for the hero's soul in Goethe's "Faust".
Wisakedjak, anglicized to Whiskey Jack, is the trickster-hero for many Northeast Indians, as is Nanabozho, the Hare, who in the Southeast is called Rabbit.
Join them on thrilling adventures as they take down vampires, meet the mystifying myosotis terra, battle Bubba Moon and his black magic and defeat goblin tricksters greedy for gold.
But don't let a Mac give you a false sense of security: It won't protect you against, say, e-mail tricksters phishing for your credit card number.
But for one Toronto trickster, remaining in one for 14 days could be his career-defining moment.
As for Mr. Salstein, his Devil was a trickster of many moods, capable of being sly and also of bursting into tantrums.
