Satan in the cinema is either represented as a hideous special effect or a comic, bumbling trickster. |
There has even been the discovery of the ultimate internet fear, the confidence trickster masquerading as an internet company. |
Eighteenth century playwrights and novelists often made their hero a criminal, a highwayman or confidence trickster. |
While seeking to recover their money from a confidence trickster, for instance, they are apprehended by police who mistake them for car thieves. |
Still, I'm not sure that merely transgressing social boundaries or taboos makes him any kind of trickster. |
His choice of a rabbit's foot hints at his affinity with Brer Rabbit and his African trickster antecedents. |