STRANGE LEGENDS OF VALENTINE' S DAY

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LOVE IS 

AND WAS STRANGE

 From Feb. 13 to 15, the Ancient 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. 

Young women would actually line up for the men to hit them. 

And you thought New Orleans at Mardi Gras was weird!

They believed this would make them fertile!

Waiting until a full moon sounds

more enjoyable ...

And was another Ancient Roman

fertility superstition

to boot.

 

 

 STRANGE FACTS ABOUT VALENTINE'S DAY

1. Girls of medieval times ate bizarre foods on this day to make them dream of their future spouse.
2. Physicians of the 1800s commonly advised their patients to eat chocolate to calm their pining for lost love.
3. Richard Cadbury produced the first box of chocolates for this holiday in the late 1800s.
4. 15 percent of U.S. women send themselves flowers on Valentine’s Day. 
5. The red rose was the favorite flower of Venus, the Roman goddess of love.
6. Women purchase approximately 85 percent of all gifts on this holiday including jewelry.
7. Every Valentine’s Day, the Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare’s lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet.
8. In Japan, women are expected to give chocolate and other gifts to men on Valentine’s Day. This tradition was started as a marketing campaign by Japanese chocolate companies. 

 In 1947 New Orleans, Valentine's Day merged with the Mardi Gras season.

 It made for an unpleasant combination.

Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte, Our Lady of Holy Death, is stalking the French Quarter streets killing apparently at random. 

What does the psychotic actress, Irene Dupré, know of this entity and what lies behind the murders? 

 She remains silent, only smiling.

 Santa Muerte’s strange acolyte 

lurks in the shadows 

watching, waiting. 

Waiting for what?

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