iul

Updated: May 10, 2025

On coming to a house the visitor should go round it deiseal to secure luck in the object of his visit. This secures its safe return. The word is from deas, right-hand, and iul, direction, and of itself contains no allusion to the sun."

Sir James George Frazer - Balder the Beautiful, Volume I.: A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The: Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul