Left comes from the latin word for evil, or sinister. You can't tell in
English, but in Spanish, that would be derecha (right) or diestra and
izquierda (left) or siniestra. So, by this association of left with the
devil, people were forced to do things with the "right" hand. (Hmmm, so that
would make left the "wrong" hand?)

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