From ward heeler to worshipful woman, this subterranean trickster is charged with selection of the tool that will turn the trick.
This threw them into consternation, and they took the Trickster aside and begged him not to tell the Raja that they were the thieves.
The Trickster pretended to read an incantation over some mustard seed, and then taking a bamboo went along tapping the ground with it.
The Trickster was taken aback at this, but there was no getting out of it; so the next morning he set out with his father-in-law to the Raja's palace.
That of the Northwestern region shows affinities to the North Pacific Coast in its prevalence of the culture-hero and trickster over the creator.
Coyote is at once a trickster and a giver of civilization and arts to man.
Second in importance in the Northwest are myths dealing with culture-heroes more or less of the trickster type familiar from so many other parts of North America.
First and most prominent in the animal myths is the Rabbit (Tsistu), who figures always as a trickster and deceiver, generally malicious, but often beaten at his own game by those whom he had intended to victimize.
He was also the great trickster and mischief maker, a character which he bears in eastern and southern Indian myth generally, as well as in the southern negro stories.
They agreed that such a trickster had no right to enter the race at all, so they gave the horns to the Deer, who was admitted to be the best runner, and he has worn them ever since.
As I have spoken above about the jugglers and tricksters of the Orient I may as well say that I witnessed the performances of the trickster who was in Harry French's Hindoo troupe.
A trial by the Caucasian trickster developed the fact that glass was not only not injurious when taken in reasonable doses, but that it served as an appetizer, stimulating the stomach to hunger after food.
But the other hand and the other trickster had more liberty, and some of my co-experimenters verified fraud.
The trickster finds greater security in darkness, where he has resources other than those just mentioned.
In every instance the right-doer is rewarded, the selfish man and the trickster are punished.
The young wife did as she was told, and there was the trickster pounding a rotten stump with the stone ax so as to make the sounds they had heard.
Surely no trickster would permit such rigorous control as that toward which we were now invited.
Could any trickster perform in the dark with such precision and gentleness?
There is nothing of the trickster about her appearance, and yet I wish she had permitted us to hold her hands to-night.
Jesus scorned not to use suggestion so that he might move men to their benefit, but every vicious trickster has adopted the same means to reach base ends.
You are by no means urged to become a trickster on the platform--far from it!
At last we view thee as thou art, A trickster with a demon's heart.
There yet be men, my masters," though the net that the trickster flings Lies wide on the land to its bitter shame, and his cunning parleyings Have deafened the ears of Justice, that was blind and slow of old.
Send dope on Murray handicaps time--trials of Trickster and Caledonian.
I saw myself dropped out of Rogers' consideration as the same kind of a financial trickster that Addicks was.
It looks to me as though that old tricksterhad got the best of us at last.
This growth of the trickster into the real culture-hero may be referred to a progress in thought and refinement.
The sense of their loss is all-absorbing, and in this state of mind it is easy for any trickster who poses as a medium to delude them into fancying that they have actually been in touch with the dead.
Obviously, trickster though she was, the girl had no rational motive for her conduct.
My old enemy, Trickster Tim, also thought this a safe occasion to insult me, coming up close before me and peering into my face, as if I were already so much carrion.
They even would have Trickster Tim to apologise and shake me by the hand.
With that I walked out of the cabin, Trickster Tim following at my heels.
After awhile he mocked it--the cold, chaste thing that was the meek trickster of so many mole-eyed lords.
Among them the chief coyote is a trickster on the grandest scale, and has obtained possession of the indestructible disk of the sun, through which he is immortal, or, at least, is renewed every day to carry that luminary.
