> Hello Paul,
>
> Sunday, September 22, 2002, 9:12:24 PM, you wrote:
>
> that's my main uncertainty - the consequences [IMG] for revealing
the
> beguilement would be far reaching for HIM, because HE's 'only'
adopted
> into the family and is likely to face anything up to isolation or
even
> severance.
> I'm not sure if a trickster would take such thoughts into account,
> after all he is part of the community as his deity was and his
behaviour would weaken
> it beyound the usual puns and bad behaviour.
> having said that, an Eurmali is expected to do exactly this kind of
> things anyway.
>
Trickster's don't have as much choice in what they do as you might
think. An excellent book of Trickster tales is published by Pantheon
Press - "American Indians Myths and Legends" by Erdoes and
Ortiz. In it there are about 40 trickster tales among the over 400
stories. Trickster betrays and inconveiences his own folk more than
the others because they are the closest to him.
He just can't control himself.
Trickers aren't jesters anymore, it would seem...
Jeff