According to legend Romulus and Remus (the founders of Rome) were to be drowned in the Tiber River but the servant tasked with the job put them in a basket to float down the river where they eventually were rescued by a she-wolf who raised them. They later named the wolf Lupercal who was then honored with a festival named Lupercalia. It is thought that what is known as Valentine's Day in present time is actually a tamed down version of Lupercalia Festival which is good unless you're into things like sacrificing goats and feasting on them, then when the feast was over they cut thongs from the goat hides and ran naked through the streets whipping women with the thongs. The men also drew women's names from a jar and coupled with them for the duration of the festival and sometimes fell in love and stayed together from then on. Pagan or not, Lupercalia sounds like more action than Valentine's Day.
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