Good Friday rain brings a fertile year.
Hollantide.
If ducks do slide at Hollantide,
At Christmas day they’ll swim;
If ducks do swim at Hollantide,
At Christmas day they’ll slide.
Lent.
Dry Lent, fertile year.
Martinmas.
If the wind is in the southwest at Martinmas, it keeps there until Candlemas. (French.)