Results for Old American Trickster Stories
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A thief and con artist from the city attempts to trick a farmer's wife out of her money.
A man tricks a salesman into chasing buried treasure in order to purchase a new machine he wants.
A western town’s rule-flaunting, drunken personality is locked up for hiding his still in the church basement, while his son is finally released from the school that had for so long oppressed him.
In the northern United States, a nineteen-year-old soldier receives advice after reuniting with his seemingly apathetic magician father in a cold 20th century winter. As they each learn more about their relationship, father and son argue about their priorities in life and whether or not these obligations are worth more than family.
A home invasion brings out the worst in a young boy.
A curious woman attempts to get to the bottom of an urban legend in her town.
A two-bit magician seduces a mother who has recently lost her young son in a motorcycle incident. Later, he finds himself back at the gravesite and uses the little magic he actually has inherited from his truly magical father to bring her son back to life.
A teenaged boy wants to steal from his poor family to buy a girl balloons, but when he gets home his mother falls ill and he must help his family and community pray for her.
A man is forced to reconsider his suspicions of superstition when a racketeer decides the man is good luck.
On an island off the coast of South Carolina, two men quickly find themselves plagued by a mysterious spirit after one of them steals a flask from an African American man’s grave.
