Old Bog Hole
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Old Bog Hole A forty bar Reel for three couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 12.1- 4 First couple cross giving right hand and cast off, second couple step up on bars 3 & 4.
5- 8 First couple dance a half figure of eight round second couple to finish facing their first corners.
9-12 Half a Hello-Goodbye setting: first couple set to first corners, then set to partner, finish facing second corners.
13-16 Turn second corners with the right hand and partner with the left hand to face first corners.
17-20 Half reel of four with first corners, and pass left shoulder to face second corners.
21-24 Half reel of four with second corners and pass left shoulders to face first corners (third corner position).
25-28 Turn first corners with the right hand, then turn partner with the left hand to finish facing second corners (fourth corner position).
29-32 Set to second corners, then set to partner to finish back to back facing second corners.
33-40 First couple dance a figure of eight on own sides passing their second corners by the right to start and finishing in second place. Meanwhile second and third couples set, dance half rights and lefts and again set.
Repeat from second place. Recommended tune: Old Bog Hole
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 12, by John W Mitchell, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell. Instructions reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-ND 4.0).
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