Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

Wolf-month

or Wolf-monath. The Saxon name for January, because “people are wont always in that month to be in more danger of being devoured by wolves than in any other.” (Verstegan.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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