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  2. Loki - Wikipedia

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    Loki with a fishing net (per Reginsmál) as depicted on an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript (SÁM 66). Loki is a god in Norse mythology.He is the son of Fárbauti (a jötunn) and Laufey (a goddess), and the brother of Helblindi and Býleistr.

  3. List of fictional tricksters - Wikipedia

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    Loki - a mischievous, sometimes sinister, god in Norse mythology. Pan - God of shepherds and flocks. He is a satyr: a creature that has the upper body of a man and the legs of a goat. In many stories, they talk of Pan, or just satyrs, in general, are known to play tricks on people, especially children, for their amusement.

  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. Dinosaur from Montana had horns like Norse god Loki's blades

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    These blade-like horns, evocative of weaponry wielded by the trickster god Loki in Norse mythology, helped inspire its scientific name, which also recognizes the permanent home of the fossils at ...

  6. 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.

  7. Loki's wager - Wikipedia

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    In the Prose Edda (Skáldskaparmál ch. 35), the Norse trickster god Loki made a bet with the dwarf Brokkr in which he wagered his head. Loki lost; when the dwarf came to collect it, Loki stated that he would relinquish his head, but noted that Brokkr was not entitled to any part of Loki's neck.

  8. All the Loki variants explained, from Kid Loki to Alligator ...

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    "Loki" episode 5 properly featured Loki variants after they were teased in episode 4's end credits. Kid Loki, Classic Loki, Boastful Loki, Alligator Loki and more were all key parts of the episode.

  9. Höðr - Wikipedia

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    Loki tricks Höðr into shooting Baldr. Höðr (Old Norse: Hǫðr ⓘ, Latin Hotherus; [1] often anglicized as Hod, Hoder, or Hodur) [a] is a god in Norse mythology.The blind son of Odin, he is tricked and guided by Loki into shooting a mistletoe arrow which was to slay the otherwise invulnerable Baldr.