It is unlucky to walk widdershins around a church.
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Widdershins
//ˈwɪ.dɚ.ʃɪnz//
Synonyms for "widdershins" (40 found)
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12 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- обратно на часовниковата стрелка adv (anticlockwise, counter-clockwise)
Czech
1 entries- proti směru hodinových ručiček adv (anticlockwise, counter-clockwise)
Dutch
3 entries- linksom adv (anticlockwise, counter-clockwise)
- tegen de klok in adv (anticlockwise, counter-clockwise)
- tegenwijzerzin adv (anticlockwise, counter-clockwise)
Finnish
1 entries- vastapäivään adv (anticlockwise, counter-clockwise)
German
1 entries- gegen den Uhrzeigersinn adv (anticlockwise, counter-clockwise)
Russian
2 entries- против часово́й стрелки adv (anticlockwise, counter-clockwise)
- противосолонь adv (anticlockwise, counter-clockwise)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- tuathail adv (anticlockwise, counter-clockwise)
Spanish
2 entries- en sentido contrario al reloj adv (anticlockwise, counter-clockwise)
- sinistrorso adv (anticlockwise, counter-clockwise)
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If Burd Ellen had gone “widishins" round the church, she would, I think, have used the best homoeopathic specific against the Elf-King's power; for "to go widishins" was the chief element in elfin practices, and if mortals wished to resist or unspell elf-craft, they, too, had "to go widershins," or they had to repeat the Paternoster backwards, which came to the same thing, or do something else contrariwise.
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Now while they rested, a flittermouse flew forth from the Witchland booths and went widdershins round the wrastling ground and so returned silently whence she came.
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Astronomers cannot help regarding the solar system as a small widdershins universe, because the real movements with which they are familiar are nearly all widdershins: the rotation of the sun on its axis, the rotation and revolution of the earth and the moon, the rotation and revolution of the planets and of most of their satellites.
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