Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of widdershins.
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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.
1891 January 3, I. Gollancz, “Widishins”, in The Academy, London, page 14, column 3
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