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Cleverness of trickster
Cleverness of the trickster this element is all about cleverness and tricking people.
First example would be in the story ¨How Stories Came To Earth¨ when the main character Anansi tricks the bees into trapping them. In the story it says ¨The rain has come do you see me here with a leaf to cover my head.” He tricked them into thinking we would cover them from the rain, but when they went in he trapped them. Another example would be from the story ¨Coyote Steals Fire¨ when the main character coyote cheats in the game of sticks. ¨Coyote turned his dice up so that they showed the carved sides.” This helped him win the game and he was very clever with cheating. Finally in the story ¨Master Cat¨ the main character puss in

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