Magician vs. Trickster

Magiciannoun

A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.

Magiciannoun

A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts often derogatory.

Magiciannoun

A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.

Magiciannoun

An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.

Magiciannoun

A person who astounds; an enigma.

Magiciannoun

One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

Magiciannoun

An entertainer who produces seemingly magical effects by clever illusions; most magicians admit that the craft is mere illusion, rather than a true supernatural art.

Magiciannoun

someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience

Magiciannoun

one who practices magic or sorcery

Tricksternoun

Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others; any similar figure in literature.

Tricksternoun

One who plays tricks or pranks on others.

Tricksternoun

One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).

Tricksternoun

An impish or playful person.

Tricksternoun

A fraud person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain.

Tricksternoun

One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.

Tricksternoun

someone who plays practical jokes on others

Tricksternoun

someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

Tricksternoun

a mischevous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts

Trickster

In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, human, or anthropomorphisation) who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior.