Sunday, 23 October 2016

One Legged Mulhagen

Instructions Verb [Latin: ‘Unum Tripodes Mulhagen’]

Start on all fours with your head tilted back so you’re looking at the ceiling. Then raise your right leg backwards, as high as it goes with your foot at right-angles with your leg. Repeatedly swing that leg up and down in time with the music.

Origins 

The ‘One Legged Mulhagen’ has an interesting yet tragic history:

In 723 AD, Monk Malachy Mulhagen crawled up the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ on the mysterious Great Skellig Island, with his right leg elevated, due to a chronic bout of gout.

The relentless, unbearable pain in his right foot compelled him to battle his way up to the summit during an intense lightning storm, in order to demand God to release him from his mortal woes.

Monk Mulhagen was never seen again. Only one scorched leather sandal was ever found... and it’s currently displayed within the foyer of the Balligoon Museum of Antiquities.


The ‘One Legged Mulhagen' was a key move demonstrated on BBC Spotlight Live

No comments:

Post a Comment