Found this about tricksters on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_tricksters "Hynes and Doty, in Mythical Trickster Figures (1997) state that every trickster has several of the following six traits:[1]
1. fundamentally ambiguous and anomalous
2. deceiver and trick-player
3. shape-shifter or master of disguise
4. situation-inverter
5. messenger and imitator of the gods
6. sacred and lewd bricoleur"
And here is more detail, from this link http://apocalypticmediations.com/documents/trickster.htm , for those who don't mind reading a bit more text.
"In his survey of the literature Hynes (1993) identifies six characteristics that he claims offer a “helpful map, heuristic guide and common template through which to become better aware of the complexities of specific trickster figures within particular belief systems”. (Hynes 1993:45)
1. The trickster is ambiguous and anomalous
Anomolous, a-nomos, without normativity, the trickster appears on the edge or just beyond existing borders, classifications, and categories…the trickster is cast as an “out” person, and his activities are often outlawlish, outlandish, outrageous, out-of-bounds, and out-of-order. No borders are sacrosanct, be they religious, cultural, linguistic, epistemological, or metaphysical. (Hynes 1993:34)
2. The trickster is a deceiver and trick-player
His, lying, cheating, tricking, and deceiving may derive from the trickster being simply an unconscious numbskull, or, at other times, from being a malicious spoiler. Once initiated, a trick can exhibit an internal motion all its own. Thus, a trick can gather such momentum as to exceed any control exercised by its originator and may even turn back upon the head of the trickster. (Hynes 1993:35)
3. The trickster is a shape-shifter
As shape-shifter, the trickster can alter his shape or bodily appearance in order to facilitate deception. Not even the boundaries of species or sexuality are safe, for they can be readily dissolved by the trickster’s disguises and transmorphisms. Relatively minor shape-shifting may involve nothing more than changing clothes. (Hynes 1993:36)
4. The trickster is a situation invertor
The trickster often turns a place of safety into a place of danger and back again. He can turn a bad situation into a good one, and then back into a bad one…the trickster is often the official ritual profaner of beliefs. Profaning or inverting social beliefs brings into sharp relief just how much a society values these beliefs. (Hynes 1993:37)
5. The trickster is a messenger and imitator of the gods
The trickster quite regularly brings gifts essential to human culture usually by braking a central taboo established in the divine order…within this process, the trickster often seems to operate within a perpetual bubble of immunity that protects him from the full weight of retribution…He has the further dubious distinction of having introduced that most ambiguous of cultural gifts – debt. (Hynes 1993:40-1)
6. The trickster is a sacred and lewd bricoleur
The bricoleur is a tinker or fix-it person, noted for his ingenuity in transforming anything at hand in order to form a creative solution. The trickster manifests a distinctive transformative ability: he can find the lewd in the scared and the sacred in the lewd, and new life from both…the trickster traffics frequently with the transcendent while loosing lewd acts upon the world. Gastronomic, flatulent, sexual, phallic and fecal feats erupt seriatim. Yet the bricoleur aspect of the trickster can cause any or all of such lewd acts or objects to be transformed into occasions of insight, vitality, and new inventive creations. (Hynes 1993:42)"
The last point on the list makes me want to add 22830 Tinker to the list. I have it on my ascendant!
And lets add these characteristics too:
26955 Lie
57509 Sly
8690 Swindle
The Wikipedia article also lists a lot of trickster characters, fictional and mythological alike. So here are a few more trickster asteroids:
3671 Dionysus
55749 Eulenspiegel
1143 Odysseus
4450 Pan
1773 Rumpelstilz
1866 Sisyphus
10604 Susanoo