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Pages in category "Trickster goddesses" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ame-no-Uzume; Apate;
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 ...
The words fox and foxy have become slang in English-speaking societies for an individual (most often female) with sex appeal. The word vixen, which is normally the common name for a female fox, is also used to describe an attractive woman—although, in the case of humans, "vixen" tends to imply that the woman in question has a few nasty qualities.
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.
1862 depiction of a Columbine set in 1683 [1]. Columbine (Italian: Colombina; French: Colombine; [2] lit. ' little dove ') is a stock character in the commedia dell'arte. [3] She is Harlequin's mistress, [3] a comic servant playing the tricky slave type, and wife of Pierrot.
This is the female version of the Male buffoon (Hispanic). [25] Carmen Miranda, Lupe Vélez (notably in the eight-film Mexican Spitfire series that lent its name to the stock character) Femme fatale: A beautiful, alluring, woman who is also traitorous, cunning and deceptive. She draws men into a honey trap, and may be motivated by revenge or money.
Nanabozho figures prominently in their storytelling, including the story of the world's creation. Nanabozho is the Ojibwe trickster figure and culture hero (these two archetypes are often combined into a single figure in First Nations mythologies, among others). Nanabozho can take the shape of male or female animals or humans in storytelling.
Don Juan (Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan]), also known as Don Giovanni , is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina.