The Tricksters
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.
What binds them
- Trickery and cunning · 13 of them
- Trickster outwits larger foes · 8 of them
- Culture bringer teaches crafts · 2 of them
- Petrified into constellation · 2 of them
- Shy elusive avoids humans · 2 of them
- Symbolizes the impossible · 2 of them
- Treasure guardian · 2 of them
- Vanishes into thin air when threatened · 2 of them
Drawn from 10 groups of traditions: European 3 · Oceanian 3 · African 2 · Norse-Germanic 2 · Middle Eastern 2 · Other 1 · South Asian 1 · None 1 · Celtic 1 · North American Indigenous 1
17 members
- Abaasy
- Akhtya
- Anansi
- Asmodeus
- Bariaua
- Brer Rabbit
- Cercopes
- Coyote
- Dinewan
- Kutkh
- Laelaps
- Leprechaun
- Qat
- Ratatoskr
- Rompo
- Teumessian Fox
- Troll at the edge of the family
≈ marks a figure at the edge of the family.
Resemblance is not descent; descent is drawn only as the gold lines on the constellation. All families.