While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three

He is a shape-shifter. He is as old as time. He kills without mercy.

In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first

Manifestations of the Trickster persona such as cryptids, elementals, werewolves, demons, vampires and dancing devils have permeated human experience since befo

Contains nine short folktales about tricksters, featuring selections from Persia, India, Poland, France, and other places.