Comparing Two Trickster Tales

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Trickster Tales “From now and forever my sky-god stories belong to you Kose! Kose! Kose! my blessing, my blessing, my blessing. We will now call these “Spider Stories.”” This is a quote from the trickster story “How Stories Came to Earth.” In this story a spider works to capture 4 animals to pay the price for the sky-god stories. In the two trickster stories “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Master Cat” there are many similarities and differences. In the two trickster tales of “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Master Cat” there are many similarities. One of the more obvious similarities is that both tricksters in both stories are animals. Another similarity in these stories is they both share anthropomorphism. Anthropomorphism is giving animals