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EL GATO (THE CAT)

EVERYONE SITS ON CHAIRS IN A LARGE CIRCLE EXCEPT FOR
ONE PERSON WHO HAS BEEN CHOSEN TO BE "IT." THIS PERSON
HAS TO GO TO SOMEONE AND PUT HER HEAD IN THEIR LAP AND
SAY "MEOW" THREE TIMES. THE PERSON THAT IS SITTING
MUST STROKE HER HEAD EACH TIME SHE MEOWS. SHE MUST
STROKE HER WITHOUT LAUGHING. IF THE PERSON THAT IS
SITTING LAUGHS, SHE BECOMES "IT." IF SHE DOESN'T
THE CAT MUST REPEAT THE PROCEDURE WITH ANOTHER
INDIVIDUAL UNTIL SOMEONE LAUGHS.

Where learned: EL SALVADOR ; CENTRAL AMERICA

Keyword(s): LAUGHING TABU

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity
Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Dramatic

Date learned: 06-00-1984

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Proverb

He who laughs last laughs best.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects.

KW: PPP

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; Seymour, Robert

Keyword(s): Laugh ; Laughter ; Maxim ; PATIENCE ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

He who laughs last, laughs best.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [O400] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects.

Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN ; 7733 CALHOUN ; Downes, JoAnn

Keyword(s): Laugh ; Laughter ; PATIENCE ; Reward ; Virtue

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

Last Laugh:

He who laughs last, laughs best.

Submitter comment:

Heard this in Grade School

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects.

Keyword(s): Laugh ; Laughter ; PATIENCE ; REVENGE ; Reward

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Laugh and the world laughs with you - cry and you cry alone.

Submitter comment:

If you see things in a happy light, others will too, but if you are constantly bitter, you will find yourself alone in your grief.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Located in a pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects

Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 2154 DICKERSON ; Verheye, Patricia

Keyword(s): Alone ; Cry ; Laugh ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

He who laughs last, laughs best.

Submitter comment:

Don't laugh at anyone in trouble, because the same thing could happen to you.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Duplicate.

Where learned: Verheye, Patricia

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Laugh ; Laughter ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

He who laughs last, laughs best.

Submitter comment:

Told to me by my mother, 1956-57, in New York.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [C880.400] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Laugh ; Laughter ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

He who laughs last, laughs best.

Submitter comment:

From - Uncertain

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE ; Whittlesey, Steve

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Laugh ; Laughter ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

The person who laughs loudest, laughs last.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V200] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Last ; Laugh ; Laughter ; Loud ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

He who laughs last, laughs best.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: Weitzel, Daniel

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Laugh ; Laughter ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

Never laugh on Friday; you'll cry on Saturday.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE ; Kranst, Lillian

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cry ; Friday ; Laugh ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; Saturday ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

He who laughs last, laughs best.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V600] crossed out. replacedw tih current classification.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Hessenbruch, John

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Last ; Laugh ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

He who laughs last laughs the best.

Submitter comment:

Learned in Childhood

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V600] crossed out. Replaced wtih current classification.

Where learned: Gallagher, Daniel

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Best ; Last ; Laugh ; Laughter ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

A good long laugh and a nights sleep is the best cure.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V200] crossed out. Replaced with current classifications.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; CURE ; Laugh ; Maxim ; PREVENTION ; PROVERB ; SLEEP ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

He who laughs last laughs best.

Submitter comment:

Heard in Ferndale, MI.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Best ; First ; Last ; Laugh ; Laughter ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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IF A PREGNANT WOMAN LAUGHS AT A DEFORMED PERSON, HER
CHILD WILL BEAR THAT PERSON'S DEFORMITY.

Data entry tech comment:

Updated by TRD

Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; BELZONI ; Griffin, Ida ; Deovelente Road

Keyword(s): BABY ; BELIEF ; Deformity ; Disability ; Fetus ; infant ; Laugh ; Mock ; Mom ; MOTHER ; PREGNANCY ; TRANSFERENCE

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed
BELIEF -- Birth

Date learned: 06-21-1973

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