the trickster is a common in stories; an example is the snake tricking eve. The trickster fools the hero and brings a problem to solve. Tricksters are not nessicarily evil.
The trickster can be found throughout literature going back to the early Greek fables by Aesop. It serves as the character that fools or tricks other characters often through a series of tests.
The trickster is an archetype because the trickster "type" of character appears in the literature of many different cultures, from Native American to British.
