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The Trickster
Study Guide from Ms. Happ's Mythology Course
Question | Answer |
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The Trickster is usually what gender? | Male |
The Trickster delights in what? | Breaking rules, boasting, and playing tricks on both humans and gods |
The Trickster upsets the natural order of things by doing what? | Stealing or causing humans to fight or engage in unpleasant behavior |
Most Tricksters are ------ changers who can... | Shape; take any form though often appear as animals |
Tricksters operate outside of what? | The framework of right and wrong- they don't recognize the rules of society |
What are the traits of a Trickster? | Childish, greedy, lustful, nasty; Can also be friendly, helpful, clever, and wise |
Tricksters posses amazing powers of what? | Survival |
Tricksters may come to sorry end in one story and then what? | Miraculously come back to life and appear in another tale |
The Trickster acts out what? | Human urges an desires that people living in communities learn to control to maintain social order |
Myths in which the Trickster's deeds backfire were developed to teach what? | A moral lesson about penalties of misbehavior |
Myths is which the Trickster is a small, but clever animal that emerges victorious teaches what? | How a seemingly powerless creature can triumph over a mighty one |
Who is the Trickster for the Northeastern Americans? | Gluskap |
Who is the Trickster for the Polynesians? | Maui |
Who is the Trickster for those along the Northwest coast? | Raven |
Who are the Tricksters for the Greeks? | Hermes and Prometheus |
Who are the Tricksters for the West Africans? | Eshu (Legba), Anansi |
Who is the Trickster for the Norse? | Loki |
Who is the Trickster for the Indians? | Krishna |
Who is the Trickster for the Native Americans (Shoshoni)? | Old Man Coyote |