Trickery facts for kids

Trickery is the act of misdirection (leading into the wrong way of thinking) or an illusion (seeing things that are not true).

For example, magic tricks are when someone makes the person seeing it think that the magic they are doing is true, but it actually is not. But magic tricks can also be pleasant entertainment when the audience know it's all tricks.

A trick can also mean to lie or misdirect (lead to wrong way of thinking) a person so that someone who is tricking the person can enjoy winning the game they are playing for example gambling.

Animal tricks

Some sort of useful action taught to an animal, for example from "shaking hands" to handing back tools or dropped objects so that people seeing the action can enjoy the trick

In the Norse mythology

Loki is the God of trickery and cunning in the Norse Mythology.

Images for kids

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  The trickster figure Reynard the Fox as depicted in an 1869 children's book by Michel Rodange.

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  Br'er Rabbit is a trickster character who succeeds through his wits rather than through strength.

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  Coyote often has the role of trickster as well as a clown in traditional stories.

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  Trickster subplot in The Relapse: Tom Fashion, pretending to be Lord Foppington, parleys with Sir Tunbelly Clumsey in a 19th-century illustration by William Powell Frith.

See also

In Spanish: Trickster para niños