> [[miller-d]]. "Blackened hero and heroic trickster: an investigation of congeners". *Mankind Quarterly* 26(1), 1985. > [doi](http://doi.org/10.46469/mq.1985.26.1.7) #link ## Abstract > The type of Second Function warrior called the "Blackened Hero" is here extended to identify types of the warrior-hero in which the characteristic of trickery, intelligence and possibly magic balance the normative stances of the latter though sometimes reduced to a comic or didactic role. The trickster type, however, may also abandon its complementarity to the "true" hero and become actively opposed, as occurs, for example, in some sagas. ## Versions It seems there are two versions of the article, one which begins "My object in this brief study..." and one which begins "In this article...".