On December 3, Orthodox believers honor the memory of Saint Proclus, who was a disciple of John Chrysostom.
It was believed that a solid sleigh road had already been completely installed on Proclus.
On this day, they watched the behavior of domestic and wild animals, which was used to judge the upcoming weather.
Today the name day is celebrated by Alexander, Alexey, Anatoly, Anna, Arseny, Vasily, Vladimir, Grigory, Emelyan, Ivan, Ilarion, Joseph, Isaakiy, Makar, Nikolay, Prokl, Tatyana, Thekla.
Those born on December 3 are decisive and pragmatic people who are interested in the occult and esoteric.
As a rule, material goods recede into the background for them, since they prefer to do what their heart desires.
If the birds were especially noisy on this day, a radical change in the weather was expected. A singing bullfinch and a magpie, which hid under the roof of a house, warned of an imminent snowstorm.
If the livestock did not want to go outside, it would soon get colder.