LUPERCALIA – Bloody Valentine’s Day

Freaky Folklore

Eeriecast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 840 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Beneath the saccharine promises of eternal love and heart-shaped confections, Valentine's Day is saturated with the echoes of ancient Lupercalia, where Roman priests would flay sacrificial beasts and run through torch-lit streets with bloody thongs, their ritual violence ensuring fertility through pain—a savage truth that still pulses beneath every crimson card and candy heart we exchange. It will rip your heart out – literally. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY Please Review Us on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Music and sound effects used in the Freaky Folklore Podcast have or may have been provided/created by: CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Myuu: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSKnkKCKAQVxMUWpZQobuQ Jinglepunks: https://jinglepunks.com/ Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/ Dark Music: https://soundcloud.com/darknessprevailspodcast Soundstripe: https:// Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.6	In the shadows of ancient Rome, a festival was celebrated that would make modern romance seem tame by comparison. Before heart-shaped chocolates and tender love notes, there was a Lupercalia, where priests would sacrifice goats and dogs,
1:21.6	smearing themselves with blood before running through torch-lit streets with strips of flayed skin, striking any
1:28.9	woman they encountered.
1:30.7	The festival evolved, but whispers of its true nature still echo through time.
1:36.7	Even now, as lovers exchanged their sanitized cards and roses, few remember that Valentine's
1:42.9	Day was born in blood and primal ritual,
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