| Folklore includes a traditional trickster
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| | story teller, a transformer. We are most
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| figure, the subject of many stories in a
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| | accessible to the gifts of the Trickster
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| cycle. Trickster tales are in the animal
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| | when we ourselves are at, or near,
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| tales genre, with the trickster himself
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| | boundaries - when we are experiencing
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| -- he seems always to be male --
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| | transition states. As an archetype, the
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| identified with a particular animal.
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| | Trickster, the boundary dweller, finds
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| These include the fox in Japan, mouse
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| | expression through human imagination and
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| deer in Southeast Asia, the coyote and
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| | experience.Trickster tales are great
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| the spider among the Native Americans,
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| | favourites in many cultures. They
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| the tortoise and spider in West Africa,
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| | represent the underdog who uses skill and
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| and the mantis in Southern Africa.These
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| | cunning to outwit a superior. West
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| tales feature a trickster-hero who may be
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| | African trickster animals have a
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| regarded as both creator god and innocent
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| | significant presence in the New World,
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| fool, evil destroyer and childlike
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| | when they travelled as part of the
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| prankster.Tricksters are usually small in
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| | folklore of enslaved Africans. The rabbit
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| size next to the large, strong animals
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| | is best known as Br'er Rabbit in the
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| that appear in the same folktales.
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| | folktales documented by Joel Chandler
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| Tricksters survive by their wits, but
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| | Harris in the USA. We also find him in
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| they do more than just survive. They
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| | his modern avatar, Bugs Bunny !The spider
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| constantly play tricks on the animals
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| | is best known as Anansi, and you find him
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| around them, outwitting and mistreating
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| | throughout the former English and French
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| their powerful neighbours even when these
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| | colonies of the West Indies.The role of
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| larger animals haven't done anything to
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| | the slave trickster tales was an
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| deserve it. Occasionally he overreaches
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| | important one giving a sense of pride and
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| himself and finds that he's been too
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| | hope for the future. They showed that the
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| clever for his own good.It's the
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| | weak could conquer the strong. The tales
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| Trickster who points out the flaws in our
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| | were devices that taught helplessness can
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| carefully managed societies. He rebels
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| | triumph over virtue and mischievousness
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| against authority, pokes fun at the
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| | is better than malice. For the slaves,
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| overly serious, creates complex schemes
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| | trickster folklore was also a weapon by
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| and generally plays with the Laws of the
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| | which they were able to take subtle
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| Universe. He constantly questions the
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| | revenge on their masters.Susanna Duffy is
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| rules, and causes us to question these
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| | a Civil Celebrant, grief counsellor and
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| same rules. The Trickster appears when a
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| | mythologist. She creates ceremonies and
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| way of thinking becomes outmoded, when
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| | Rites of Passage for individual and civic
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| old ways need to be changed.The Trickster
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| | functions, and specialises in
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| is a creator, a joker, a truth teller, a
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| | celebrations for women.
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