Gifts and envelopes, colored and wrapped in brown craft paper, tied with twine with bows and labels, hearts and roses on wooden planks background. Love, Valentine's, women's day, romantic concept

 

Gifts and envelopes, colored and wrapped in brown craft paper, tied with twine with bows and labels, hearts and roses on wooden planks background. Love, Valentine's, women's day, romantic concept

Origins to a Bloody Pagan Festival. Some trace Valentine’s Day origins to a Christian effort to replace a pagan fertility festival that has been dated as far back as the 6th century B.C. During the festival of Lupercalia, Roman priests would sacrifice goats and dogs and use their blood-soaked hides to slap women on the streets, as a fertility blessing. According to legend, women would later put their names in an urn and be selected to be paired with a man for a year.

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