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.
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