I'm just gonna throw in the bit of historical trivia that the ancient (pre-Republic) Roman calendar *didn't have months* for January and February -- that whole time of year was just called "winter" ("hiems") and not worth keeping track of until the Kalends of Marchhttps://twitter.com/Hal_Duncan/status/1315751438673379336 …
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There's a lot of stuff from medieval England where they played 1970s-swinger-style key party games to "pair up" men and women (drawing names from an urn or whatever) and they would always say this was a Roman custom from Lupercalia but there's no evidence of that
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As is all too common, those English peasants just wanted to do something "naughty" and "dirty" that the church would probably frown upon, and so they labeled it a "pagan" tradition even though it was something made up fairly recently Same stuff happens today
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