The trickster tale that I read was "Connecticut Yankee" by: S.E. Schlosser. It is a folktale about a scrawny peddler who comes to stay with a couple at their house for a couple of nights. He's old so the man thinks that he is of no harm to him. the owner of the house says that he can stay as long as he performs a Yankee trick. The peddler promises to do it the next day and goes to bed. But the next day, before he can perform the trick he leaves on his horse promising the man that he will soon see it. A couple of minutes later, the man's wife starts screaming that the Yankee had just sold her her own bed cover and ran off with the money.
The traits I received from this story were: deceiving, sneaky and smart. Obviously the Yankee had outsmarted the couple and that is one of the key traits of a trickster.
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