Whatever tricksters are I would argue that they have little if anything to do with crazy. The origins of the word trick refers to the staging of chaos, the temporary framing of confusing… And to disregard all consequences from their manipulation. This is the history mythological of all tricksters.
Have a little trick.
He is a trickster.
…Ladies and gentlemen, we are tonight’s entertainment.
This is the history of all tricksters. Confusion, messyness, catastrophe itself and chaos. All of those are ordinary characteristics of the mythological tricksters.
That’s a trickster.
