trickster

Mr. Gill looks back at that 1992 interview and others and realizes that the Jeff Beck he thought he knew is a mystery, a self-contradicting trickster with a tendency to be witty and evasive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The work in question is a "maqāma" -- an Arabic literary form that often features a wandering "trickster."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025

For a while now, I’ve been interested in Baba Yaga as an example of this female trickster that pops up in folklore and mythology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

Crudup plays 19 characters in the 80-minute performance, taking on the roles of everyone the titular confidence trickster comes into contact with.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024

Then there was monkey-faced Hanuman, the trickster who had famously helped the god Rama in his fight against the demon king.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Authorities warn that they won’t call you to threaten arrest or demand money over missed jury duty, yet tricksters convince many.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Sprawling compounds where internet tricksters target people with romance and business cons have thrived along Myanmar's loosely governed border during its civil war, sparked by a 2021 coup.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

But although screening at publishers is helpful, the arms race between screening methods and tricksters means it is unlikely to stem the tide of problematic papers entirely.

From Science Magazine ● May 31, 2024

Ravens: Ravens, notorious tricksters in many Indigenous Nations’ folklore, became more ominous thanks to Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

The problem with tricksters is that they think everyone is playing the same games.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri