Talk:widdershins

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Wicca

Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Wicca? I'm familiar with the term from Discworld, so it surprises me to see it's primarily used in Wicca (as opposed to just an archaic term for counterclockwise). Can someone source this? -- 22:55, 29 March 2014 71.201.72.124

It was added by a user known for dubious edits. I've removed it. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:59, 30 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
My familiarity with the term is from fantasy that uses it as a mystical word; much ceremonial magic in those books is done widdershins. https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=widdershins&gws_rd=ssl shows quite clearly to me the use of the word as the title of books about magic, "The Witches of Widdershins Academy", for example, or Widdershins ("The story unfolds with Christina's introduction into the black arts by a mysterious benefactor that she meets in a wooded grove.") or Widdershins ("Widdershins is about a shadow world — the otherworld, the realm of spirits — that exists, unseen, side by side with our own world.") We get the World of Numbers on the second page, but we also get The Wiccan Wellness Book ("I like to carry the incense widdershins around the room (widdershins being the direction of banishing)").--Prosfilaes (talk) 08:39, 13 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Dion Fortune

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

If she wrote this, she didn't write it in 2011, since she died in 1946... AnonMoos (talk) 11:18, 5 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

OED 1st edition

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

In the OED 1st edition, it's listed under "Withershins" (with "Widdershins" the alternative form), and the two senses listed are "wrong way" (obsolete as of the OED publication) and "In a direction contrary to the apparent course of the sun (considered as unlucky or causing disaster)" -- AnonMoos (talk) 11:24, 5 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

RFC discussion: February 2021

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The following discussion has been moved from Wiktionary:Requests for cleanup (permalink).

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Either widdershins or withershins needs to be made the lemma, duplicated content from the other entry relocated to the lemma, and the other entry converted to an alternative form entry. — SGconlaw (talk) 18:01, 17 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Google Ngrams suggests that widdershins should be the main entry. —Mahāgaja · talk 18:45, 17 February 2021 (UTC)Reply


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