The Trickster Myth

Trickster myths can be entertaining to read for many reasons: it can bring laughter for its audience for their clever ways to tricking their victims. Tricksters possess the ability to tricking their victim by how they sway their words, stealing, or even attempt to frame from them. They often want to manipulate their victims for gain something from them or for the intention for their entertainment. Their malicious acts can reveal how society is not picture perfect. It shows how society can have its flaws and how there are times where people can be dishonest. Although each myth is different, some of the characteristics tricksters share is immature and humorous but at the same time can be intelligent that appeal to a crowd. Even with

This will lead to their downhill at the end of the story just like what had happened to Old Man Coyote. In the story, a buffalo had granted Old Man Coyote to transform him into a young buffalo. Years later, when Calf-Coyote meets an another old coyote, he attempts to transformed an another old coyote that same way but instead transformed Calf-Coyote himself back it his original form. At the very end of the story, there was a Call to Action the author had put that says: "So always remember, don't start anything unless you know you can finish it. " (Adams, 171). The interpretation for this quote is that you can't commit to the things you can't promise. It leads to believe that Old Man Coyote was greedy and is rather selfish due to the privileges that he gotten from the buffalo and not thinking at the fact that the buffalo has not give any powers at all. Old Man Coyote possess that the characteristics of a shadow-crone: bitter, isolated, and is desperately want to regain its youth. Shadow-crone also lack of compassion which is he when he be impatient of waiting for the old coyote: “Calf-Coyote got impatient and ran ahead…” (Adams, 171). When he encountered an another old wolf, Old Man Coyote might have felt that he had all the power he has because of the accomplishments he done during that 4 years before meeting that coyote. Because of the lack of consideration of the coyote and his greed of power and privilege, the concept of karma come in at the end when he is transformed back to his old