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From Norse Mythology To West African Folklore – These 25 Questions Reveal Your Trickster Match
Loki from Norse mythology beside a West African folklore figure for a Trickster Match quiz.
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From Norse Mythology To West African Folklore – These 25 Questions Reveal Your Trickster Match

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Every culture apparently needed one of these. A being clever enough to outsmart gods, dumb enough to get caught doing it, and just charming enough to talk their way out of the consequences. We call them tricksters now, but really they were just the original people who couldn’t leave a good opportunity alone.

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Loki got chaos and a flair for drama. Anansi got a mouth that could talk a spider out of a web. Coyote got enthusiasm and famously bad judgment. Hermes got speed and an address book full of favors. Kitsune got patience most of us gave up on around age 30. Br’er Rabbit got underestimated, which, it turns out, is its own kind of superpower.

You’ve probably got a little of all of them in you, but one of them is doing most of the driving. Maybe it’s the one who talks first and thinks later. Maybe it’s the one quietly playing a longer game than anyone around you realizes.

Either way, 25 questions in, you’ll know which mythological menace you actually are. Go find out.

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    Squirrelly Panda
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    1 month ago

    Kitsune You play the long game, and you play it so well that most people never realize there was a game at all. Patient isn't even the right word; it's more that you've made peace with waiting exactly as long as it takes. The face you show the world is rarely the whole truth, and that's on purpose. People trust you fast, which either says a lot about your skill or a little about their judgment. Probably both.

    Forrest Hobbs
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    1 month ago

    Heh. This one, I actually enjoyed. Apparently, I'm Anansi (literally spider - Akan trickster from modern-day Ghana, shown in American Gods; I'd been hoping for Loki, despite the whole chained up bit with poison dripping on his face and all that): You get what you want the old-fashioned way, by talking your way there. Not lying exactly, more like arranging the truth into its most flattering shape. You've turned more than one disaster into a story people retell at parties, usually with you as the clever one. People underestimate how much work goes into sounding effortless, and you'd rather they kept underestimating it. Just don't believe your own material quite so much.'

    Starbug
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    1 month ago

    Br'er Rabbit - Everyone assumes you're the harmless one, right up until you've already won. You've built a whole personality around being underestimated, and honestly, it works better than brute force ever could. You don't need to be the biggest or loudest thing in the room; you just need everyone else to think you're not worth watching closely. That's the trick. By the time they catch on, you're already gone, or already winning.

    KitchenToto
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    3 weeks ago

    That was me too. In real life I have never worried about winning a game. I always let the other person win because it makes them happy. I am more interested in improving my academic achievements to become a teacher

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    Squirrelly Panda
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    1 month ago

    Kitsune You play the long game, and you play it so well that most people never realize there was a game at all. Patient isn't even the right word; it's more that you've made peace with waiting exactly as long as it takes. The face you show the world is rarely the whole truth, and that's on purpose. People trust you fast, which either says a lot about your skill or a little about their judgment. Probably both.

    Forrest Hobbs
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    1 month ago

    Heh. This one, I actually enjoyed. Apparently, I'm Anansi (literally spider - Akan trickster from modern-day Ghana, shown in American Gods; I'd been hoping for Loki, despite the whole chained up bit with poison dripping on his face and all that): You get what you want the old-fashioned way, by talking your way there. Not lying exactly, more like arranging the truth into its most flattering shape. You've turned more than one disaster into a story people retell at parties, usually with you as the clever one. People underestimate how much work goes into sounding effortless, and you'd rather they kept underestimating it. Just don't believe your own material quite so much.'

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    Starbug
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    1 month ago

    Br'er Rabbit - Everyone assumes you're the harmless one, right up until you've already won. You've built a whole personality around being underestimated, and honestly, it works better than brute force ever could. You don't need to be the biggest or loudest thing in the room; you just need everyone else to think you're not worth watching closely. That's the trick. By the time they catch on, you're already gone, or already winning.

    KitchenToto
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    3 weeks ago

    That was me too. In real life I have never worried about winning a game. I always let the other person win because it makes them happy. I am more interested in improving my academic achievements to become a teacher

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