Crossword-Solution: SUNWISE 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

That was the wrong way round--the unlucky, uncanonical direction; the evil way, widdershins, the opposite of sunwise.

The sun still shone, but the wind had fallen, when, two hours later, MacLean pocketed the key of the store, betook himself again to the water’s edge, and entering a small boat, first turned it sunwise for luck’s sake, then rowed slowly downstream to the great-house landing.

The ancient dagobas of India and Ceylon were also traversed round in the same way, and the old Irish and Scotch custom is to make all movements _Deisual_, or sunwise, round houses and graves, and to turn their bodies in this way at the beginning and end of a journey for luck, as well as at weddings and other ceremonies." To go _withershins_ and to read prayers or the creed backwards were great evils, and pointed to connection with the devil.

Ringworm may be killed by moistening the finger in the mouth and rubbing sunwise around the diseased spot.

Why, she sat up in the big rocking-chair most all Sunday afternoon, reading the almanac, and then she died on Monday." Poor Mary, the thin volume was her sole library! CHAPTER XVI.--It would involve a much more extended discussion than the space-limits of these notes will allow, to undertake to show the origin and meaning of the superstitions in regard to the sun and sunwise movement.