Did you know?
The Athenians built a shrine to Boreas as they said he’d saved them from the Persians at the battle of Artemisium in 480BC.
James I accused witches in 1590 of raising winds to harm him and his queen as they sailed from Denmark. After being tortured, they ‘confessed’ and were executed.
Kamikaze (the name given to Japanese suicide pilots) means divine wind and is believed to come from the wind God, Fujin, who devastated Mongol invading fleets in the 13th Century.