Crossword-Solution: DEASIL
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DEASIL | anagram | AISLED, DELIAS, IDEALS, ISLADE, LADIES, SAILED |
We have 4 clues for the answer “DEASIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| in the direction of the apparent course of the sun | 1 answer |
| CLOCKWISE | 5 answers |
| CLOCKWISE STARTER | 10 answers |
| COMBINING FORMS CLOCKWISE | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEASIL (4)
This, which was called making the “deasil,”[**] both the leech and the assistants seemed to consider as a matter of the last importance to the accomplishment of a cure; and Waverley, whom pain rendered incapable of expostulation, and who indeed saw no chance of its being attended to, submitted in silence.
Various ceremonies were gone through, while the kindred of the deceased carried the body ashore, and, placing it on a bank long consecrated to the purpose, made the deasil around the departed.
They drank the water and then moved round the well deasil (sunwise), and before departing left an offering on the stone.
One of the simplest methods is the Deasil-walking of the Scotch Highlanders: the seer walks rapidly three times, with the sun, around the person whose future is to be foretold, and thus produces a trance, in which his magic powers become available.
Quotes with DEASIL (1)
In the Scotland of the early seventeenth century, an old woman living alone in Kirkcudbrightshire was accused of witchcraft and on conviction was rolled downhill in a blazing tar barrel. One of the charges against her was that she walked withershins round a well near her cottage which was used by other people. The well was afterwards known as the Witch's Well. These episodes must surely serve as cautionary tales to anyone tempted to transgress the usual custom of walking deasil round a holy well.