White and pink burning aromatic candles and roses on white openwork paper napkin on wooden table, yellow bokeh lights background selective focus. Love, Valentine’s, women’s day, romantic concept

White and pink burning aromatic candles and roses on white openwork paper napkin on wooden table, yellow bokeh lights background selective focus. 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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