Talk:Juno Februata

Former text:
This is how fakelore is perfectly innocently generated:
 * "The month of February was sacred to Juno Februata. Her feast day fell on February 15.  On this day, eligible young women wrote their names on slips of paper (called billets) and put them in a large bowl.  Each single man drew one billet.  The lady whose name was on the billet he drew was his partner for the day's erotic festivities.  These partnerships often resulted in marriage.


 * "In 494 AD, Pope Gelasius I renamed Juno Februata's feast day. It is now known as the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary.  The date was also changed to February 2.  To appease the pagans, the Church created a romantic holiday (Valentine's Day) on February 14."

The present article needs examples of Juno Februata presented in terms of the Latin context. --Wetman 06:32, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

There certainly is nothing in ancient literature to support the "names in a box" business. --Al-Nofi 16:37, 8 February 2007 (UTC)