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.
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}