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  2. List of fictional tricksters - Wikipedia

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    The trickster figure Reynard the Fox as depicted in an 1869 children's book by Michel Rodange. The trickster is a common stock character in folklore and popular culture. A clever, mischievous person or creature, the trickster achieves goals through the use of trickery. A trickster may trick others simply for amusement or for survival in a ...

  3. Category:Fictional tricksters - Wikipedia

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    Fictional tricksters, characters in a story (gods, goddesses, spirits, humans, or anthropomorphisations) who exhibit a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and use them to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior.

  4. Trickster - Wikipedia

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    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 (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.

  5. Category:Trickster gods - Wikipedia

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    Male deities depicted as tricksters, story characters (gods, goddesses, spirits, humans or anthropomorphisations) who exhibit a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and use it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior.

  6. Category:Tricksters - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Tricksters" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  7. List of con artists - Wikipedia

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    Gregor MacGregor (1786–1845): Scottish con man who tried to attract investment and settlers for the non-existent country of "Poyais". [2]Jeanne of Valois-Saint-Rémy (1756–1791): Chief conspirator in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which further tarnished the French royal family's already-poor reputation and, along with other causes, eventually led to the French Revolution.

  8. Category:Fictional con artists - Wikipedia

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    S. The Saint (Simon Templar) Seishiro Sakurazuka; Carmen Sandiego (character) Shapoklyak; Becky Sharp; Los simuladores; Bobby Singer; Han Solo; Keyser Söze; Eliot Spencer

  9. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    Pictured are stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte, which gave each character a standard costume. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1] The following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides