MEONG-MEONGAN

By:Siti Musrifah

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meong-meongan is a traditional game from Bali and usually played by children and accompanied with meong-meongan's song.This game describe about cat's effort or in Bali language called ''meng'' to catch the mouse or ''bikul''. In this game usually played by 8 people or more,which one of them act like mouse(bikul), and one again as mouse(meng), and the other players must protect bikul from meng with made a circle and then bikul stay in that circle.Meng will try to enter the circle and catch bikul. The children that made a circle also try to block meng in order can't enter the circle. Meng will allow to catch bikul when the song was ended in lyric ''juk-juk meng juk-juk kul''.