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To: alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic,alt.lucky.w From: lee@gw.retro.com (Lee Thompson-Herbert) Subject: Re: pendulums Re: bottle trees and graveyard dirt Date: 30 Mar 2002 11:07:35 -0800 In article, Mike R. wrote: > >i make clear that deosil is for yes, widdershins is for no, ARRGH. I hope that whoever propigated those two terms into the neopagan community is paying for it in the afterlife. Widdershins is anglo-saxon. Deosil (more correctly deiseal) is irish. The correct opposite is tuatal. I wish people would just use "right" and "left" instead of the made-up terms. -- Lee M.Thompson-Herbert lee@retro.com KoX 1995, SP4 Head Muso, White Rats Morris Member, Knights of Xenu (1995). Chaos Monger and Jill of All Trades. "A head-on collision between Morticia Adams and Martha Stewart"
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