• God as dupe or trickster. A177.1
• Culture hero as dupe or trickster. A521
• Trickster sticks spear in ground and leads water to sea, ending deluge. A1028.1
• Why wild duck has red eyes. Dances for trickster. A2332.5.7
• Why quail has no tail. Tricks crab into pulling out tail instead of killing her. Says that gripping her neck would not hurt but that pulling tail will be fatal. A2378.2.1
• Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees. A2731.1
• Blinded trickster directed by trees. He asks them their names and by their answers he can tell where he is. (Cf. D950.) D1313.4
• Fairy tricks mortal. F369.4
• Animals killed by trickster's breaking wind. F981.3
• Brother-Dead. Trapper of game; silent; pursues trickster. G323
• Ogre killed through other tricks. G519
• Ogre's wife killed through other tricks. G519.1
• Task: eating room-full of salt. (Trickster eats only a pinch. "He who has eaten with a friend as much salt as I have eaten and does not recognize the friendship will not do so though he eat ten rooms full of salt.") H1141.3
• Trickster overhears man praying for death to take him; the trickster appears at man's house, usually in disguise, says he is God (or the devil). The man tells him to take his wife (or he runs away). (Compare C11 for a similar situation in which Death appears.) J217.0.1.1
• Don't play tricks on Gascons. J652.4.2
• Illegitimate daughter of trickster inherits father's ability to dupe others. J1111.2
• Animal as trickster. J1117
• Jackal as trickster. J1117.1
• Coyote as trickster. J1117.2
• Witness claims the borrowed coat: discredited. Trickster summoned to court on Jew's complaint refuses to go unless he has a new coat: Jew lends him his. In court the trickster says that the Jew is a liar: "He will even claim that I am wearing his coat." The Jew does so and no one believes him. J1151.2

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• Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 25 XXV. THE TRICKSTER’S GREAT FALL AND
• Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 27 XXVII. THE TRICKSTER’S RACE
• Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 31 XXXI. THE TRICKSTER KILLS THE CHILDREN ”
• Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 33 XXXIII. THE TRICKSTER BECOMES A DISH ==

• ATU 1122 The Ogre's Wife Killed Through Other Tricks
• ATU 122Z Other Tricks to Escape Being Eaten
• ATU 1358 Trickster Surprises Adulteress and Lover
• ATU 1358C Trickster Discovers Adultery: Food Goes to Husband Instead of Lover [K1571]
• ATU 1367 Trickster Shifts Married Couples in Bed
• ATU 1406A* Women's Tricks Are Better than Men's
• ATU 1547* The Trickster with Painted Penis
• ATU 1634* Various Tricks Played by Gypsies
• ATU 1635* Eulenspiegel's Tricks [K300]
• ATU 30 The Fox Tricks the Wolf into Falling into a Pit