After the sacrifice of numerous goats and a dog, male youths smeared the sacrificial blood on their bodies and ran around Rome with a strip of goat flesh, with which they struck women to make them fertile. Performed on February 15 in honor of Faunus, worshipers gathered arou
After the sacrifice of numerous goats and a dog, male youths smeared the sacrificial blood on their bodies and ran around Rome with a strip of goat flesh, with which they struck women to make them fertile. Performed on February 15 in honor of Faunus, worshipers gathered around a cave on the Palatine Hill where Romulus and Remus were supposedly suckled by a she-wolf. For ten points name this Roman festival mentioned in the opening lines of Julius Caesar, which is named after the she-wolf.
After the sacrifice of numerous goats and a dog, male youths smeared the sacrificial blood on their bodies and ran around Rome with a strip of goat flesh, with which they struck women to make them fertile.
{Lupercalia} or {Lupercal}