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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 Middle Ages.— Hills and the Sea
To go 'withershins' seems to have been reserved for cursing and excommunication.— Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul
To go round a person in the opposite direction, or withershins (German wider-shins), is unlucky, and a sort of incantation.]— Waverley
Gellie Duncan, the musician of the party, tripped on before, playing on her Jew's harp, and singing Cummer, go ye before, Cummer, go ye Gif ye will not go before, Cummer, let me 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
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
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