Clockwise was know as deasil (your spelling may vary, lol)

Quote Originally Posted by usonian View Post
tripleblessed beat me to the word 'Widdershins', which does have some superstitions associated with it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widdershins ... but as Steve said above, a lot of 'history' that gets repeated about ancient peoples and cultures is often conflated with myth.