Valentines Day

The history of Valentine's day is actually pretty bad. No one knows the exact origin of where Valentine's day came from but some people think it came from Rome, where men hit on women by hitting them. The men would sacrifice a goat and a dog and then hit the women with the hides of the animals they had just killed. The women would actually line up so that men would hit them because they thought it would make them fertile. Valentine's day also included a matchmaking lottery where young men would choose a young woman's name from a jar and they would be coupled and their "love" would last the duration of the festival called "Lupercalia" or longer if the match was right. The Romans might also be responsible for the name of Valentines day because Emperor Claudius the Second executed two men named Valentine on Feb.14.  As years went on the holiday became sweeter where handwritten love cards we made. Today is also called SAD (Single Awareness Day).