Ti Malice and Bouki

Ti Malice is a trickster character and nemesis of Tonton (Uncle) Bouki in Haitian folklore.

While Ti Malice is smart and guileful, Uncle Bouki is hardworking but is also very greedy.

[1] It is the manipulation of this greed that allows Ti Malice to often get the best of Uncle Bouki.

Bouki, the hungry and skinny hyena and Leuk, the hare with a mischievous character and legendary cunning.

[2] Two equivalent figures, also a hyena known as Bouki and a hare (called Lapin), are known to exist in Louisiana folktales.