Trickery

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Trickery is modernly defined as "the practice of crafty underhanded ingenuity to deceive or cheat" to play a trick on someone is the art of trickery. A trickster being someone who has achieved mastery over the art of tricking people to be able to keep himself alive. In mythology there were many different types of trickster, some were benevolent unable to see that they are doing wrong, some were [cunning] and able to perform many tricks and feats of magic which enabled them to overcome many of the things they encountered on there journeys but ultimately still good spirits as they generally used there powers to teach.