11 February, by Zorro
The St Valentine’s Day of Romans was Lubercus, holidays of the fertility of the shepherds and the herds. Billy goats and goats (tackles) were sacrificed.The half bare young men, coated with some blood of animals, ran (roamed) then in the city, drinking and laughing, while whipping without violence the young ladies whom they crossed with fragments of skin of the sacrificed animals. This ritual aimed that they are fertile and give childbirth without any pain. Romans liked the games (sets) of (…)