I hadn't thought about Tricksters for quite a while, and then they were usually the Coyote type. I've recently been reading the essays in "Trickster Lives", especially the two related to Huckleberry Finn and Roughing It. I see how Tom Sawyer and Br'er Rabbit fit the parameters I'm familiar with but I'm concerned that assigning Twain's malevolent Calvinist god to the role of trickster diminishes the utility of the concept of Trickster. I suppose I'm just conflating Trickster with Prankster and I don't see the Duke and the King as pranksters just greedy opportunists. It's the same with "Confidence Men". --/Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado/