| His choice of a rabbit's foot hints at his affinity with Brer Rabbit and his African trickster antecedents. |
| He was a confidence trickster and was very clever at getting people to take his side. |
| He does not interpret the role as a menacing villain, but as a confident, tireless, self-satisfied trickster. |
| Eighteenth century playwrights and novelists often made their hero a criminal, a highwayman or confidence trickster. |
| Probably the most well-known twentieth-century trickster, Shine is an epic figure in African American folklore. |
| There has even been the discovery of the ultimate internet fear, the confidence trickster masquerading as an internet company. |
