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Tricksters
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trickster
thumb|The trickster figure Reynard the Fox as depicted in an 1869 children's book by [[Michel Rodange]] In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior. Such a character may be a god, goddess, spirit, human or anthropomorphisation.