Timeanddate.com listed some international leap year traditions as well as some superstitions in its article.
As Germany was not mentioned in the article, I did my own research and found the following information on another website in German:
A German weather proverb claims: Schaltjahr wird Kaltjahr (leap year will be a cold year). This was true a few weeks ago when the temperature had dropped to – 15 C°.
Additionally, when the first day of a leap year falls on a Sunday (such as this year), then three Friday, the 13th come about (such as January, April and July of this year).
Fortunately, I do not believe in any of them. Otherwise I would not have booked my return flight from Japan to Germany for Friday, the 13th of April.
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