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Updated February 14, 20227:49 AM ET
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Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody — and a bit muddled.
Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one place to start is ancient Rome.
ARNIE SEIPEL
Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody — and a bit muddled.
Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one place to start is ancient Rome.
The dark origins of Valentine's Day
Posted from npr.org
Holidays
Ancient History
Rome
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.
The Roman romantics "were drunk. They were naked," Noel Lenski, now a religious studies professor at Yale University, told NPR in 2011. Young women would line up for the men to hit them, Lenski said. They believed this would make them fertile."...
..."From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.
The Roman romantics "were drunk. They were naked," Noel Lenski, now a religious studies professor at Yale University, told NPR in 2011. Young women would line up for the men to hit them, Lenski said. They believed this would make them fertile."...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SGT (Join to see) Sacrificing a Goat I'm Cool with, They Taste Good, Now Dogs, Against My Religion!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SGT (Join to see) "Drunk?" "Naked?" Did Someone See me on the Northeast Side of Dodge? LOL!
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