The Trickster and Anomalous Phenomena

For well over a hundred years, western scholars have struggled to comprehend the prevalence of “trickster” tales in ancient and indigenous mythology. While these tales hold many, hotly debated meanings, recent research suggests that the trickster may, in part, be a coded representation of anomalous phenomena. Watch the video version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcyLr480t1g Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/user?u=3375417 Donate on Paypal: https://ThinkAnomalous.com/support.html Website: https://ThinkAnomalous.com Full transcript & sources: https://ThinkAnomalous.com/trickster.html Facebook: https://facebook.com/ThinkAnomalous Twitter: https://twitter.com/Think_Anomalous Instagram: https://instagram.com/Think.Anomalous Check out more from our illustrator, V.R. Laurence: https://vrlaurence.com Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau. Illustration by V.R. Laurence (https://vrlaurence.com). Some illustrations from earlier videos by Colin Campbell. Research by Jason Charbonneau. Assistance from Clark Murphy. Music by Josh Chamberland. Animation by Brendan Barr. Sound design by Will Mountain and Josh Chamberland. Selected sources: Babcock-Abrahams, Barbara. ”’A Tolerated Margin of Mess:’ Trickster Tales Reconsidered.” Journal of the Folklore Institute 11, no. 3 (March, 1975), 147-186. Bathgate, Michael. The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Culture: Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities. New York: Routledge, 2004. Bennett, Jeffrey. When the Sun Danced. London: University of Virginia Press, 2012. Boas, Franz. “Introduction,” in J. Teit, Traditions of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Boston–New York, USA, 1898. Brinton, Daniel. “The Chief God of the Algonkins, in His Characters as a Chief and Liar.” American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal 7, (May 1885): 137 – 139. Brinton, Daniel. The Myths of the New World: A Treatise on the Symbolism and Methodology of the Red Race of America. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1896. Brown, Norman. Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth. Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Press, (1947) 1990. Combs, Allan, and Mark Holland. Synchronicity: Science, Myth, and the Trickster. New York: Paragon House, 1990. Dixon, Roland B. Maidu Texts, Publications of the American Ethnological Society IV. Editor, Franz Boas. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1912. This podcast uses sound effects downloaded from stockmusic.com.