Widdershins

Widdershins – This is the opposite of clockwise, which is deosil (bonus word)! Commonly used in witchcraft and folklore superstitions. It was considered unlucky to travel widdershins around a church in Britian.

Origin – in a direction contrary to the sun’s course, considered as unlucky; anticlockwise.

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