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Sittin' around trying to come up with a list of female trickster heroes. I can come up with exactly one whom I'd fully buy as a trickster, and she's not even famous for the story of being a trickster -- Dido, who founded Carthage on as much land as could be covered by an oxhide.
I could be persuaded about Penelope. And I guess Loki isn't male full-time. Hmph.
@sculpin I'm in Penelope's camp big-time. She fools *everybody*. She's the only person who makes Ulysses totally lose his cool. Of course it's more grim and serious because women's lives were.
And the point about witches is good, too -- Circe and Calypso, for instance!
Is Cinderella's fairy godmother not a trickster of the stepfamily and the prince?
