![]() ![]() 5: Brer Rabbit (American)īrer Rabbit is a figure right out of American folklore and featured in the Disney Movie Song of the South (good luck getting your hands on a copy-it’s out of production). Come Ragnarok, Loki will break free from his bonds and fight against the gods, alongside Fenrir and Jörmungandr (his children). Ultimately, any positive connection he has with the other gods ends when they decide to bind him with the entrails of his sons. Throughout Norse mythological cycles, he shape shifts into a variety of creatures such as a salmon, a fly, a horse, and an old man. Loki’s relationship with the other gods was sometimes good and sometimes bad. Loki is quite the shape-shifter, because he is also the mother of Sleipnir, Odin’s eight-legged horse. Through his union to Angrboda (herself a jotunn, a type of undefined creature), he is also the father of the great wolf Fenrir, the world-serpent Jörmungandr, and Hel, the goddess of the underworld. ![]() Loki is the trickster-god from the Norse pantheon. As Africans were enslaved and brought to North America and the Caribbean, they brought along these trickster narratives, some of which became stories about Brer Rabbit (featured later in this list). Oftentimes his antics are beneficial for mankind, such as the way he obtained rain. Though they are not codified in written, but rather extend to a diverse range of verbal retellings, most of them celebrate his shape-shifting abilities and clever wit, which he leverages to get what he wants out of creatures and beings who are much bigger than he is. He is most commonly featured in the narratives from the Ashanti people of Ghana. 1: Anansi the Spider (African)Īnansi the Spider is probably one of the most recognizable trickster figures in the world repository of folklore. Let’s take a look now at some of the more memorable mischief-makers of world folklore, as we learn about these 9 mythological tricksters from around the world. In fact, there is good cause to say that many of the amusing trickster figures of modern day (such as Bugs Bunny) are descendants of these original tricksters. From tribal Africa to ancient Greece to Baroque France, these trickster figures carry both an entertainment and didactic function they make us smile, and help us understand how certain phenomena came to be-through their ruses, or as fallouts from those hijinx. Though their motivations can range from selfish to selfless, their clever ruses have delighted listeners through the ages. You can help the Forgotten Realms Wiki by providing more information.Trickster figures abound in folklore around the world. ![]() Spells Ĭlerics who chose this domain were granted free access to these spells (they could cast them at any time without having to prepare them in advance): blink, charm person, dimension door, disguise self, dispel magic, dominate person, mirror image, modify memory, pass without trace, and polymorph. ![]() Other abilities were the blessing of the trickster, which helped others to be more stealthy and divine strike, which coated a weapon with dangerous poison on impact. The former allowed the creation of a perfect illusory double (in the case of accomplished users, four of them) and the latter allowed the user to become invisible. Second Sundering Powers Īfter the Second Sundering of the 1480s DR, clerics with the Trickery domain gained the ability to use the channel divinity powers called invoke duplicity and cloak of shadows. Those that were masters of this domain could conceal a whole area with screen, could polymorph any object, ultimate use time stop. Clerics of some experience could cast confusion, deceive others scrying with a false vision, and create a illusory double with mislead. Spells Īfter 1372 DR, novice priests with the Trickery domain could disguise themselves with disguise self and conceal themselves and others with invisibility and nondetection. Waukeen Year of Wild Magic Powers Īfter the Year of Wild Magic, 1372 DR, such priests could freely learn skills in deception, disguise, and concealment. ![]()
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