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Trickster
Literary archetype / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Trickster (disambiguation).
In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, human or anthropomorphisation) 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.
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