@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?