Around 1530, it was considered very bad luck to walk around a church
widdershins (see the Wikipedia article). I think it goes back earlier
than that, to a time well before clocks.
If widdershins means counter-clockwise, how did they know which way
clocks ran?
The answer lies in northern
It's also connected to handedness. widdershins means to go leftwise,
deasil righthanded or rightwise. lefthandedness bad, righthandedness
good.
Threads righthanded usually, bunches of other stuff.
Don
Bill Hawkins
Around 1530, it was considered very bad luck to walk around a church
widdershins
Direct GPS signals, RHCP, good! Reflections (multipath) LHCP bad! ;-)
--
Björn
It's also connected to handedness. widdershins means to go leftwise,
deasil righthanded or rightwise. lefthandedness bad, righthandedness
good.
Threads righthanded usually, bunches of other stuff.
Don
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Around 1530, it was considered very bad luck to walk around a church
widdershins
Bill Hawkins schrieb:
Around 1530, it was considered very bad luck to walk around a church
widdershins (see the Wikipedia article). I think it goes back earlier
than that, to a time well before clocks.
They wrote at Wiki:
Because the sun played a highly important role in primitive religion,
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To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'
Subject: [time-nuts] Widdershins
Around 1530, it was considered very bad luck to walk around a church
widdershins (see the Wikipedia article). I think it goes back earlier
than that, to a time well before clocks
On 6/26/12 11:05 AM, Bill Hawkins wrote:
Around 1530, it was considered very bad luck to walk around a church
widdershins (see the Wikipedia article). I think it goes back earlier
than that, to a time well before clocks.
If widdershins means counter-clockwise, how did they know which way
clocks
Jim Lux schrieb:
widdershins derives from Middle low german weddersines from Middle High
German widersinnes, wider=back + sinnes=in the direction of
widersinnig means 'nonsense' = not useful in the common thinking.
The german wider- means 'against something'. There is another german
word