South

From Traditional Witchcraft Wiki Project

South is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points, and the opposite of north. In popular convention, to go south also means "to go downwards", north being associated with an upwardly direction. The word South can be traced back to the Old English word suth, related to the Old High German word sund, and perhaps sunne in Old English with the sense of "the region of the sun".

In Gaelic the word for south is deas, which relates to the apparent clockwise movement of the sun (see deosil). In the system of the airts utilised by some witches, the southern airt is associated with the colour white and the noon (that is to say the bright white light of the noontime sun).