The 24th March, called Belloʹna’s Day, when the Roman votaries of the war-goddess cut themselves and drank the sacrificial blood to propitiate the deity.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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