A pendulum hung from a long enough wire, set swinging in a straight line in one plane, will appear over the hours to swing in a different plane. The pendulum has not changed plane. The Earth has rotated underneath it, and the swing plane — fixed with respect to the distant stars — is the part of the apparatus that didn't move.
The plane appears to rotate at ω = ω_E · sin(latitude), where ω_E is one full rotation per sidereal day (23 h 56 min 04 s). At the pole this is one full rotation per day. At the equator it is zero. In between is the bit Léon Foucault demonstrated to the public at the Panthéon on 26 March 1851, hanging a 28-kilogram brass bob from a 67-metre wire under the dome. The exhibition has, intermittently, never closed.
The compass rose here is fixed to the ground, like the marble inlay below the original Panthéon installation. Watch the swing plane drift relative to it. Northern hemisphere: clockwise as viewed from above, the direction the ancients called deasil. Southern hemisphere: counter-clockwise, widdershins.