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- 01The blood on the boys' faces had to be wiped with wool soaked in milk — the boys were required to laugh.
- 02Women deliberately lined the streets to be struck by the goat-hide thongs, believing it guaranteed fertility.
- 03Pope Gelasius I tried to suppress Lupercalia in 494 AD, writing a furious letter that confirms it was still happening.