The Tricksters
13 figures A family: figures with traits in common
Anansi, the leprechaun, Ratatoskr running insults up and down the world tree: the guild that wins by wit against weight, whose shared vocabulary is the outmaneuvered giant. The moral cuts both ways. A world where cleverness beats strength is a world where you can be the giant.
cunning outwitters of larger foes (anansi, leprechaun, kutkh, ratatoskr)
What binds them
- Trickery and cunning · 37 of them
- Trickster outwits larger foes · 21 of them
- Culture bringer teaches crafts · 1 of them
- Hops on single leg · 1 of them
- Shapeshifts human animal · 1 of them
- Treasure guardian · 1 of them
- Creation · 1 of them
- Knowledge bestowal · 1 of them
Drawn from 10 groups of traditions: East asian 2 · Norse germanic 2 · None 2 · African 1 · Other 1 · South asian 1 · Celtic 1 · Middle eastern 1 · North american indigenous 1 · Oceanian 1
Members
- Abaasy
- Akhtya
- Anansi
- Bake-danuki
- Bakezōri
- Coyote
- Kutkh
- Leprechaun
- Qat
- Ratatoskr
- Rompo
- Saci-Pererê
- Troll ≈
Resemblance is not descent; descent is drawn only as the gold lines on the constellation. All families.