Re: How Nasty Is A Trickster?

From: Paul Andrew King <paul_at_...>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:42:05 +0100

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>And everyone know that at some point even a bound trickster betray
>his bound chieftain / clan / society. And good chieftain knows how to
>kill him before he would cause trouble and after he unintentionally
>did good things to his clan.
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>Advice, you should kill him, pile up stones around him (indicating it
>is not a secret murder) and wait the consequence.
>

Preempting the chiefs decision is probably not wise for for someone who has a rather shaky position in the clan . If SHE can manipulate someone else into doing it that might work.

Even then there needs to be a good story as to WHY it was necessary to kill the trickster - tongues will wag and unless there is an obvious good reason people might begin to see significance in what the trickster was saying before being killed.

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"The T'ang emperors were strong believers in the pills of 
immortality.  More emperors died of poisoning from ingesting minerals 
in the T'ang than in any other dynasty" - Eva Wong _The Shambhala 
Guide to Taoism_

Paul K.