The Tricksters

13 creatures confidence: medium community #12

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) [carried from v1, overlap 1.00] [carried from v3, overlap 1.00] [carried from v5, overlap 1.00] [carried from v6, overlap 0.90] [carried from v8, overlap 1.00] [carried from v9, overlap 1.00] [carried from v10, overlap 1.00] [carried from v11, overlap 1.00] [carried from v12, overlap 1.00] [carried from v13, overlap 0.41] [carried from v14, overlap 0.59] [carried from v15, overlap 0.92]

What binds them

The shared documented vocabulary this family coheres around — each link lists every carrier of that motif or power.

• trickery and cunning (power, shared ×37)
• trickster outwits larger foes (motif, shared ×21)
• culture bringer teaches crafts (motif, shared ×1)
• hops on single leg (motif, shared ×1)
• shapeshifts human animal (motif, shared ×1)
• treasure guardian (motif, shared ×1)
• creation (power, shared ×1)
• knowledge bestowal (power, shared ×1)

Spans 10 tradition families: 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 ≈

Affinity families assert documented resemblance — shared motifs and powers that beat a null model — never genealogy. Descent is a different claim, made only by the gold curated-kinship edges on the constellation. Discovered by deterministic community detection; see all affinity families.