It was a proverb in Norfolk that wherever the wind lay on Ash Wednesday, there it would stay for the whole of Lent. Ellis added it at the end of Brand’s account of the day. It belongs with the many sayings that read the weather of a whole season from a single day.
Wind on Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday
Lore and belief
It is a proverb in Norfolk that wherever the wind lies on Ash Wednesday, it continues during the whole of Lent.
From Brand's Popular Antiquities, vol. 1, p. 102. Read the original
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