withershins

Arrived at the kirk, they paced around it withershins, that is, in reverse of the apparent motion of the sun.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 Charles Mackay 1851

Then as you go round the arches, "withershins" against the sun (in which way lucky progression has always been made in sacred places), there pass you one after the other the epochs of the

Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

I will be grateful to her for ever, and my gratitude is only increased by the certainty that the withershins of anxious, unthinking PC will never know anything like it.

In the news in Pompeii 2006

To go round a person in the opposite direction, or withershins (German wider-shins), is unlucky, and a sort of incantation.

Waverley 2004

For each group of arches come later than the last in the order of sculpture, and the sculptors during those 300 years went withershins as should you.

Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

My love then and his bonny ship turn’d withershins about.

The Lowlands o' Holland 1910

My love then and his bonnie ship turn'd withershins about.

Lowlands of Holland 6 1898

Osberne made up toward the door, but the carline put forth her hand and thrust him back, and said: "Not yet; abide where thou art a minute;" and straightway fell to going withershins round the house.

The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865

To move against the sun was improper and productive of evil consequences, and the name given to this direction of movement was _withershins_.

Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847

He was popularly credited with assisting, in this disguise, in the instruction of a novice into the mysteries of Freemasonry, and was supposed to allow the novice to ride on his back, and go withershins three times round the room.

Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847