As punishment for deceiving Lucina, Galanthis was transformed into a weasel ; she continued to live with Alcmene.

Galanthis noticed Lucina and deduced Hera's plans.

In Greek mythology, Galanthis or Galinthias was the woman who interrupted with Hera's plan to hinder the birth of Heracles in favor of Eurystheus, and was changed into a weasel as punishment for being so insolent as to deceive the goddesses of birth that were acting on Hera's behalf.

Galanthis, a maid of Alcmene who was nearby, observed Lucina's actions and quickly deduced Juno's plans.

She was foiled by Galanthis, her servant, who told Hera that she had already delivered the baby.

In the version followed by Ovid in Metamorphoses, Galanthis was the red-gold haired servant of Alcmene, who assisted her during the birth of Heracles.

Hera punished Galanthis by turning her into an animal.

Like Galanthis, Historis announced that Alcmene had delivered her child ; having been deceived, the witches went away, allowing Alcmene to give birth.

She would have permanently delayed Heracles ' birth had she not been fooled by Galanthis, Alcmene's servant, who lied to Ilithyia, saying that Alcmene had already delivered the baby.

* Proetus of Thebes, eponym of the Proetid Gates, and father of Galanthis.

The myth of Galanthis is also briefly mentioned by Pausanias: he recounts the Theban version of the story, which referred to the heroine as Historis, called her a daughter of Teiresias, and made no mention of her transformation.

For he laughed at and ridiculed all notions of Publick virtue, and the love of one's Country, calling them the Chimerical school boy flights of Classical learning ; declaring himself at the same time, No Saint, no Spartan, no reformer.

At an anti same-sex marriage rally the AFA co-organised, guest speakers stated gay marriage should be " laughed at and ridiculed " and incorrectly associated gay marriage with paedophilia.

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.

He laughed at a story that he planned to bolt the party if he was not nominated.

It was the first time any of us had laughed since the morning began.

Whenever he laughed it was all he was doing.

She knew she was feeling afraid and inwardly laughed at herself.

He was laughed off the screen.

His face was ruddy and heavy and unlined, and when he laughed he showed his teeth, which were big and white and strong and unquestionably home-grown.

Maggie started laughing, and she laughed so hard she couldn't stop, and she kept on laughing while she lugged the clothes out to the yard to hang them up while the sun was still shining.

In his Materials for a History of the Baptists in Rhode Island, Edwards wrote :" The first mover himself for it Baptist college in 1762 was laughed at as a projector of a thing impracticable.

" I was determined to go ahead ", he later wrote, " for Hitler must be laughed at.

When she was bitten by her canine co-star, the producers were afraid she would cry, but she merely laughed, and was hired for the job.

In another GameDaily article, they state that the goal of the game was not just to shoot all of the ducks, but to avoid being laughed at by the dog.

While he was attending McGill, a girlfriend laughed at his ineptness at the game of bridge, motivating him to immerse himself in a study of existing bridge materials.

No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did, but the idea that the ship was saved and all of our heroes in that movie were saved simply by the fact that there were fans who did understand the scientific principles on which the ship worked was absolutely wonderful.

He laughed because Sarah was past the age of childbearing ; both she and Abraham were advanced in age.

And I laughed ; it was hysterically funny.

When announced, many present openly laughed that such an insignificant settlement was now the capital city of Michigan.

" The Emperor laughed, and said that Christ rising from the dead was as likely as the egg in her hand turning red while she held it.

The technical manager ( Melvyn James ) called for the curtain to close and requested a doctor, whilst the audience ( unaware of what was happening ) laughed, believing the events to be part of the show.

Scholars have occasionally interpreted Lord Coke's ruling in Dr. Bonham's Case as implying the possibility of judicial review, but by the 1870s, Lord Campbell was dismissing judicial review as " a foolish doctrine alleged to have been laid down extra-judicially in Dr. Bonham's Case ..., a conundrum ought to have been laughed at.

She held herself that way and turned her head towards them and laughed and winked.

But one of his bird friends, the fantail, laughed at the ridiculousness of the situation, seeing Māui turned into a worm squirming to enter the goddess, and woke her.

Vissarion Belinsky wrote in his memoirs that, Nicholas I, knowing Ukrainian very well, laughed and chuckled whilst reading the section about himself, but his mood quickly turned to bitter hatred when he read about his wife.

Then the assembled gods turned to the orcish gods and laughed loud and long.

" He went on to say that no matter what the UFOs turned out to be, they " can't be laughed off.