Experience I Had with the Trickster

[SheilaT]

10. I never think of these missing things in terms of a trickster,

although I do think that there's something messing with me on occasion. I have several stories about these things, but the one I'll relate is this: Some time back one of a pair of earrings had gone missing. I was quite certain I'd put them both on top of my dresser, where one remained, but the other was nowhere to be found. I didn't fret, because I knew it would eventually show up, especially as I was the only living creature in the household with pierced ears. (There was also a husband, two sons, two cats, and a brother living in the basement. None of them wore earrings.)

About six months later I was walking down the stairs (two story house) and all of a sudden the missing earring materialized in front of me, whacked me on the knee, and landed a couple of stairs down from me. I simply said Thank You out loud.