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Saci - A Brazilian folklore character, a one-legged black or mulatto youngster with holes in the palms of his hands, who smokes a pipe and wears a magical red cap. Sang Kancil, the mouse-deer trickster of Malaysian and Indonesian folklore. Scheherazade, the heroine in the frame story of the One Thousand and One Nights.
Category. : Fictional tricksters. 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.
Maintained to separate fiction - While some may argue that the category of Fictional Shapeshifters is superfluous, this category is maintained to separate shapeshifters appearing in works of fiction (i.e. characters created by a specific author in specific work) and those from legend, mythology or folklore (for instance, the trickster gods of various mythologies).
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.
In Dogon mythology, the fox [1] is reported to be either the trickster god of the desert, who embodies chaos [2] or a messenger for the gods. [3]There is a Tswana riddle that says that "Phokoje go tsela o dithetsenya [Only the muddy fox lives] meaning that, in a philosophical sense, 'only an active person who does not mind getting muddy gets to progress in life.'
Pages in category "Tricksters". The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Trickster.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 November 2024. List of villains in Disney productions, games and comic books Disney Villains Logo of the franchise since 2019 Created by Disney Consumer Products Original work Walt Disney Pictures films Print publications Book(s) List of books Novel(s) Kingdom Keepers series The Isle of the Lost ...
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. co-production with Silver Screen Partners IV and Pegasus Entertainment. June 21, 1991. The Rocketeer. released under Walt Disney Pictures in North America and under Touchstone Pictures outside of North America; co-production with Silver Screen Partners IV and The Gordon Company. November 22, 1991.