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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 b

Idea: I am planning on doing the project about Tricksters competing with each other to see who has the best tricks. Ideally, I would use two stories for each trickster with first story being somewhat tame and little while the other story is a very large/impactful trick as the tricksters become more competitive. The story will be a dialogue between the characters below retelling their tricks. (Anansi via Wikimedia Commons ) Anansi (Caribbean) – For these stories, I plan on the first story to be about Anansi and the Tiger as they are rivals and for the big second story, I am planning on using a story on how Anansi tricked Death. These stories are a little shorter so I may have to combine a couple of stories together.  ( Link to resource) Till Eulenspiegel (German) – The first story for this trickster would be the story of how he fooled the director of a hospital into thinking he was able to cure the sick (“How Eulenspiegel Healed the Sick”) as it was a small trick that ended up gett

  (Loki and Idun by John Bauer via Wikimedia Commons ) Topic 1: Tricksters  (This link seems helpful as it lists a bunch of different tricksters from various cultures)      This topic sounds fun because I really enjoy tricksters in stories because they are not only clever, but they also bring a twist into the story. Loki is a well-known trickster in Norse mythology but that is the only specific trickster that I know of. Otherwise, I have little to no knowledge of any other trickster stories, so I am hoping to learn more about this type of story because they’re pretty entertaining. My idea of retelling the stories of various tricksters is to make them all sit down and argue about which one of them played the best trick. They will argue and tell one of their stories in hopes to be named the best trickster. Topic 2: Legendary Creatures                                                                                                                                                  (Thi