trickster

huiputtaja

haltiahahmo

petkuttaja puhekieltä Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythology mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others; any similar figure in literature.
1991, Alan R. Velie (compiler and editor), American Indian Literature: An Anthology, Revised edition, https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ODQjTcd2P9IC&pg=PA44&dq=%22trickster%22%7C%22tricksters%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22trickster%22%7C%22tricksters%22&f=false page 44,

The trickster is one of the oldest and most widespread of mythological and literary figures.(..)As the name implies, the trickster is, on one level—probably the most important—an amoral practical joker who wanders about playing pranks on unsuspecting victims(..)With all the fluctuations, certain things about the trickster are predictable: he is always a wanderer, always hungry, and usually oversexed.

Tricksters abound in folktales(..).

And let us begin with those sympathetic elements, the tricksters who obtain the lovers and the land, always at the expense of fools and knaves, sometimes at the expense of other tricksters.