Swedish Witch / Jolanda Tarot - The Fool

Luna's Crone

I don't mind blending tradtions it often gives a new perspective,and Yolanda certainly have no problems with that she is strongly influenced by the traditions of North American tribes and she is trained in the sweetmedicin tradition.
In her book she compares the european Fool with the indian Heyokan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyoka

i went back and read that again. that is really interesting both seem to be in likeness, but by the time the fool was getting a personality Europe, maybe a few where already aware of the clown and used some of those traits, but then there's the jester. I wonder how many cultures had the jester type beside Native Americans and Europeans?
 

rylla

The crocodile appears in the Kabbalistic visions tarot's Fool card too. It is referred as 'the divinity which is expressed by Sobek, the holy crocodile'.