This story can be traced to African trickster tales, particularly the hare that figures prominently in the storytelling traditions in Western Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa.

In preliterate cultures it manifests itselfs in ritual and folk forms, as well as in trickster tales and oral poetry.

Examples of African-American folktales include trickster tales of Br'er Rabbit and heroic tales such as that of John Henry.

Wonder stories, trickster tales, nonsense doggerel, riddles and ballads about bloodletting, dark deeds and revenge, held his people in campfire thrall.

Students of folklore may be surprised to find only four Maui stories, none of them trickster tales.

Animal tales are normally divided into trickster tales and ogre tales.

In the early 1990s McDermott began working on a series of trickster tales and two works of mythological creation stories.

The genre of stories is the trickster tale.

As Kelly understood, the comics' brash, upstart manner makes the genre an especially good match for the trickster tales of old.

(Ages 4 to 8) Here are four trickster tales retold and handsomely illustrated in delicate watercolors.