Trickster
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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
The trickster figure Reynard the Fox as depicted in an 1869 children's book by Michel Rodange
Trickster subplot in The Relapse: Tom Fashion, pretending to be Lord Foppington, parleys with Sir Tunbelly Clumsey in a 19th-century illustration by William Powell Frith.
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Br'er Rabbit
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Br'er Rabbit is a central figure in African-American folktales. The character is an oral tradition passed down by African-Americans of the Southern United States and African descendants in the Caribbe
Trickster
…Edda, Loki becomes a mare who later gives birth to Odin's eight-legged horse Sleipnir. In African-American folklore, a personified rabbit, known as Brer Rabbit, is the main trickster figure. In West Africa (and thence into the Caribbean via the slave trade), the spider (see Anansi) is often the trickster. In…
Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby, drawing by E. W. Kemble from "The Tar-Baby", by Joel Chandler Harris, 1904
Br'er Rabbit's dream, from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881
The African savanna hare (Lepus microtis) found in many regions on the African continent: the original Br'er Rabbit.
Eatonton, Georgia's statue of Br'er Rabbit