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What is a trickster?

What is a trickster? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others; any similar figure in literature.
  2. One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
  3. One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
  4. An impish or playful person.
  5. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).
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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.

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