A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of reading about tricksters. Tricksters live up to their name and use their ability to fool others for gain. Sometimes they come out as victors, but in this Unit, many fell because of this trait. I've written in many of my previous posts that I am not a big fan of "unhappy" endings, but I actually enjoyed this week's stories because of the fact that those tricksters met a deserved ending. The story that jumps out specifically is the story of "The Jackal and the Crow". It can be argued on which of the titular characters was the trickster, but regardless, neither survived by the end of the story. Another tale told the story of a dishonest mother tigress, whose dishonesty eventually leads to her child leaving her. One last aspect that I really liked from these stories was the fact that a few of these stories did not follow along the cliche of tricksters being wild animals and humans being victims. In a few of the stories, we see the human characters pulling a few tricks out of their pockets to get out of bad situations.
Using these notes, I feel like I can create a story myself that has a human hunter using trickery as a way to lure his prey to their demise. Right now, I am trying to figure out a way to show his downfall, an aspect that I've noticed in many of these stories. Right now, I think I can have the story end with the hunter being so overconfident with his catches, that his cage is overfilled and breaks, causing all of his capture animals to turn and attack and kill him.
(Hunter whose pride befalls him:
Bibliography: Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Cecil Henry Bompas;
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