- In
mythology and the
study of
folklore and religion, a
trickster is a
character in a
story (god, goddess, spirit,
human or anthropomorphisation) who exhibits...
-
Official CIA
Manual of
Trickery and
Deception (1953) Melton, H. Keith; Wallace,
Robert (3
November 2009). The
Official CIA
Manual of
Trickery and Deception. Harper...
-
religion and
folklore ****ociated with stories, wisdom, knowledge, and
trickery, most
commonly depicted as a spider.
Anansi is a
character who reflects...
- Desk
Trickery is a
studio album by Doldrums,
released in 1999 by Kranky. The
Chicago Tribune wrote that
Doldrums "embrace
playing for the fun of it, stretching...
- messages,
communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck,
trickery, and thieves; he also
serves as the
guide of
souls to the
underworld and...
-
itself is a
variant of a
common folktale theme in
which ingenuity and
trickery (rather than doggedness) are emplo**** to
overcome a
stronger opponent....
- table-turning to be the
result of the
ideomotor effect, or of
conscious trickery. When the
movement of
spiritualism first reached Europe from
America in...
-
existence of pyrokinesis. Many
alleged cases are
hoaxes and the
result of
trickery. The word
pyrokinesis (from Gr**** pyr
meaning fire,
kinesis meaning movement)...
- of
kidnapping people to
serve as
sailors by
coercive techniques such as
trickery, intimidation, or violence.
Those engaged in this form of
kidnapping were...
- left
cunning Trickery in
charge of his
workshop (
Trickery had
recently become one of the god's apprentices).
Fired by ambition,
Trickery used the time...
