When the Trickster comes up, "Mystery Spot" and "Changing Channels" immediately spring to mind. However, the character's first appearance is in Supernatural season 2, episode 15, "Tall Tales." And ...

Wherever the trickster appears—in myths or movies, in dreams or fairy tales—the effect is a wildly destabilizing but ultimately beneficial shift of conscious awareness.

Why are some dreams so full of frustration and misfortune? It seems the dreaming imagination could focus on creating more experiences of magical wonder and ecstatic flying, but instead it ...

Hamill originally played the Trickster on the 1990’s TV series starring John Wesley Shipp. To see Hamill reprising a character that he played decades before was certainly an unusual but exciting ...

As noted in my book, American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit, there are only two detailed pieces of research connecting Potter’s tales with Harris’s earlier folktales.

The trickster is an elusive shape-shifter of animal-divine nature, a boundary -crosser par excellence, more powerful than humans in many ways and yet constantly caught up in ridiculous misadventures.