Storybook Plan

The main idea or point of this project is just to have people enjoy and learn about trickster stories from different cultures.  The storytelling style that I'm going for is a dialogue between different characters as well as these characters retelling some of their stories from their perspective.  It will most likely start with all of them discussing at a table arguing who is the better trickster and then one of them will speak up and retell one of their stories.  Then after the storytelling, it will cut back to dialogue between the characters until another one speaks up.  This will continue until each trickster has gone twice with the second storytelling more intense (or at least a story with a bigger consequence) than the first storytelling.  

For Anansi's stories, I will be combining a couple of stories into one bragging point (story) for this specific trickster as the stories are pretty short.  Anansi will start off talking about how they tricked the tiger so many times by combining these specific stories (Story 1Story 2Story 3).  Then Anansi will later use these set of stories of Anansi tricking Death (Story 4Story 5) as a larger bragging point.

For Till Eulenspiegel's stories, I will use two stories with the first being "How Eulenspiegel Healed the Sick" and "How Eulenspiegel Danced on the High Wire" from this source. (If I could get maybe one more source or more stories for this trickster, it would be much appreciated).  The first story is a simple one where the only consequence is that Till stole a little money while the second is way more intense as the town got in a large fight at the end..

For Coyote's stories, I will be using two stories with the first being "Coyote and Grizzly" and "Coyote and the Dragon". (If I could get a couple more reliable websites for stories on this trickster, it'd be much appreciated).  The grizzly story is a very simple one where the coyote goes against someone slightly stronger and larger than themself while the dragon one is more impressive as the coyote is tricking a mythical creature.

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