The Trickster

In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and conventional behavior.
The Trickster appear fundamentally ambiguous and anomalous, deceiver and trick-player, shape-shifter, situation-inverter.

Tricksters may be able to lie, to know how to juggle opportunistically in different situations, creating escape routes, passages and pores through which to enter. Similarly, in his ability, it includes the reverse to the first: the ability to capture an opportunity, to clog the pores, creating the impenetrable.
The trickster plays with the porous and nonporous
(Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde 1998).

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