Wolf Trickster (Mapuche)

trickster · Mexico · Mesoamerica

Not independently attested: the Mapuche trickster is not a wolf but the fox, ngürü, cast in tales (epew) as a clever and sometimes diabolical 'ñiwa wentru' figure. Wolves do not feature as Mapuche tricksters, and the Mexico placement is mistaken, since the Mapuche live in Chile and Argentina. This duplicates a mislabel found in an earlier batch.

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