 The folktales don't always contain an actual 'trickster' but a theme of trickery tactics.For example, Charles Chesnutt's collected a series of stories titled "The Conjure Woman" (1899).One of the story trickster tactics is "how an enslaved man is spared being sent from one plantation to another by having his wife, who is a conjure woman, turn him into a tree...the trickery works until a local sawmill selects that particular tree to cut".