• 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
• 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
• Animals killed by trickster's breaking wind. F981.3
• Brother-Dead. Trapper of game; silent; pursues trickster. G323
• 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
• 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
• The laughing ass. King has trickster's horse's tail cut off. Trickster retaliates by cutting off part of upper lip of king's ass. At trial the animals are brought forth. Everyone laughs at the ass. Trickster: "If everyone laughs at the ass, how could the ass help laughing at her companion without a tail?" Freed. J1169.5
• To be beaten by deceiver of husband. Lady has her women ready to give a trickster a beating. He is allowed to make one request. The one who has most often deceived her husband shall strike first. J1182.1
• Error was in the honey. Trickster takes jar filled with earth but with honey on top as bribe to the judge. He takes the decision in writing. Cheat is discovered and judge sends message that an error has been made. Reply: the decision was right; the error is in the honey. (Cf. J1176.3.) J1192.2
• Dividing two sheep and a ram: trickster to divide with two friends. You two take one sheep; the ram and I will take the other. J1241.1
• Dividing three fish among two men. Fools submit problem to trickster who solves problem by taking third fish himself. J1241.3

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• Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 33 XXXIII. THE TRICKSTER BECOMES A DISH ==

• 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 1547* The Trickster with Painted Penis
• ATU 4 Sick Animal Carries the Healthy One (previously Carrying the Sham-Sick Trickster)