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Trickster Figures: Challenging Rules, Boundaries, and Authority in Folklore – Explore the Role of Trickster Characters Like Coyote (Native American), Loki (Norse), Anansi (West African), and Reynard the Fox (European) in Various Mythologies and Folktales, Figures Who Use Cunning, Deception, and Humor to Disrupt Order, Challenge Authority, and Often Bring About Both Chaos and Unexpected Creation or Change, Representing Ambiguity and the Subversion of Norms.

Trickster Figures: Challenging Rules, Boundaries, and Authority in Folklore (A Lecture in Mischief and Mayhem) (Image: A collage of Coyote, Loki, Anansi, and Reynard, all looking mischievous.) Welcome, welcome, fellow…