/lit/ - Literature

It'd say the context would be Aesop's fables, the bible, and Reynard the Fox, either directly or through Chaucer's The Nun's Priest Tale.

>>19717005
I'll check it out, then. Those types of books tend to be quite fun

>>18469150
He's pretty much an example of the trickster archetype, so any character like that. Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, for example. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_tricksters

Arséne Lupin, basically the originator of the Gentleman thief trope. He is full of great tricks, not so much robbing people, but outsmarting his opponents while robbing people.
Odin was also a trickster character alongside of being a ruler and a wanderer. Odysseus fits this as well.
But if you want hardcore folklore trickery, just look at 'The History of Reynard the Fox'. Some of his acts are just cruel(peeing in wolfcubs eyes so that they will go blind also raping the wolfs wife) but others are really clever and cunning. Reynard is literally the face of fictionary tricksterdom.