Trickster - the Wise Fool

*Ted Andrews, Animal Speak
Coyote, The Trickster or the Wise Fool. Coyote Medicine, The Wise Fool in the native traditions. The image of the wise fool has been used in the lore of many societies.
http://spiritlodge.yuku.com/topic/979#.UkrYttLwkqg
NOTE: Know that coyote is native only to America.

*The Wise Fool in the European culture (Celtic, Norse, Slavic or Greek folktales)

Bakhtin and Carnival
... misery became laughter, hunger became feast, the fool became wise, the beggar became a king, the world was turned upside down and inside out.
http://bak.spc.org/subversion/18%20carnival.html

*The Wise Fool in Greek Tradition
Tricksters and Wise Fools: trickster who sometimes plays the fool and sometimes is witty and wise, the desired "harmonia oppositorum", the harmony created by the meeting of opposites. In a fable common all over Greece, the great Animal Trickster, common in all European and Mediterranean oral traditions, Miss Fox is outwitted by her own child. There we find another example of the Child as a Wise Fool, and how the Wise Fool meets the Trickster. A version from Cyprus of the same story ends with a proverb: "The fox may be ten years old, but the fox cub is eleven."
http://www.academia.edu/2965650/The_Wise_Fool_in_Greek_tradition._Aesop_Socrates_Christs_fools_Nashredin_Hodja_A.Papadiamantis_Theophilos
http://www.academia.edu/1967805/The_wise_fool_as_a_Teacher._Mastering_the_interpersonal_and_intra_personal_intelligence

Tea with Ms. Fox

*April Fool's Day
Origins. In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1392), the vain cock is tricked by a fox in "The Nun's Priest's Tale".

*Celtic Lore

In many cultures wise fools carry small bells that chime as they walk and in Ireland poets once carried bells in honour of Brighid. The snowdrop, which is sacred to Brighid, is sometimes called “The Candlemas Bell”. A reminder that this beautiful bell like flower heralds Imbolc. Fire of the Heart, the Hearth and the Forge.

The Druid Oracle says the Fox is the Animal Spirit Guide of those people born during the Alder Month - Moreover, I was born at the Alder Moon (Spring Moon, the first Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox. Ostara).

Ms. Fox, the Trickster par excellence in all European and Mediterranean oral traditions.

Foxes are considered roguish and caddish, a symbol of cunning and trickery and even possessors of magical powers. The fox has come to represent intelligence triumphing over brawn in many cultures. In fact, The Moche people of Peru believed the fox to be a warrior that would use his mind to fight. It is similar in Finnish mythology, where it is believed that the fox, while weaker, will always be able to outfox both wolf and bear.

celtic goddess bridget and curu - the red hound

Here is The Seeker (The Fool) from the Gaian Tarot

http://www.sacredfamiliar.com/2011_11_01_archive.html