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Trickster Tales: Not Just A Bedtime Story "Beep Beep"Â…Â…VRRROOOOMMMMÂ…Â…and the Roadrunner speeds away from the deceitful Coyote as Coyote falls over a Cliff with his "Acme" dynamite still in hand. The tale of the "trickster" is known and shared all around the world. It is an age old story that has many different versions and is culturally diverse. Almost every culture has some version of the trickster tale; from the early West African people and their tales of Eshu, to the modern day American versions like Wile E. Coyote that Warner Brothers has made so popular (Doty and Hynes 10.) Japanese culture has the story of Susa-No-O, and even the ancient Greeks had similar stories dealing with the character Hermes (Doty and Hynes 141, 46.) With so many different cultures involved, one would think that the tales and myths would be just as variegated. However this is not necessarily the case. It seems as though the trickster story hent this human characteristic in that when a character is......
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