Trickster tales have different functions in various societies. Certainly the stories are told because they are funny and entertaining; but they are also in some sense sacred. Radin reports that the reaction to trickster stories "is prevailingly one of laughter tempered by awe" (xxiv).
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Such laughter can lift one's spirit, but might also reinforce social morals and correct behavior because one can look at the trickster and say, "I would never be that stupid!" Barre Toelken discusses such trickster functions.
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As with so many of O'Connor's Lucifer-Trickster figures, we first meet him coming ..... Lucifer-Trickster's function is to unveil false ownership in a more ...
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In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and conventi...
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the folkloric figure of Trickster, not merely in their individual aspects as agents of chaos, but in the paradoxically redemptive function they perform. ...
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Figures 1 and 2 illustrate the dramatic growth. The data suggest a social movement of considerable influence. There are several reasons CSICOP has flourished. ... Figures based on pages 447-48 and the inside covers of the Summer 1990 issue of the Skeptical Inquirer.
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But one of the world's greatest and most interesting trickster figures is not only a god, but a god of high metaphysical content. He is Eshu-Elegbara, one of the orisha, the West African deities that are worshiped in many related forms across African and the African diaspora in the ... These two functions are deeply related,
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Borat has broken, and it's star, Sacha Baron Cohen, is now in the ascendancy. ... Without much thinking about it, I assumed this guy was another trickster figure in a long line of trickster figures (John Belushi, Jim Carrey, Tom Green, Dave Chappelle...).
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