Editing Flagellation (section)

===Antiquity===
During the [[Ancient Roman religion|Ancient Roman festival]] of [[Lupercalia]], young men ran through the streets with thongs cut from the hide of goats which had just been sacrificed, whipping people with the thongs as they ran. According to [[Plutarch]], women would put themselves in their way to receive blows on the hands, believing that this would help them to conceive or grant them an easy delivery.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Caesar*.html#61 |title=Plutarch: The Life of Julius Caesar (section 61) |publisher=LacusCurtius |accessdate=3 February 2022 |archive-date=13 February 2018 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20180213130122/http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/caesar%2A.html#61 |url-status=live }}</ref> The eunuch priests of the goddess [[Cybele]], the ''[[galli]]'', flogged themselves until they bled during the annual festival called [[Dies Sanguinis]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Meyer |first=Marvin W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2URCb14ShQC&pg=PA114 |title=The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-8122-1692-9 |page=114 |access-date=3 February 2022 |archive-date=25 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240125105420/https://books.google.com/books?id=N2URCb14ShQC&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> The initiation ceremonies of [[Greco-Roman mysteries|Greco-Roman mystery religions]] also sometimes involved ritual flagellation, as did the [[Sparta]]n cult of [[Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia|Artemis Orthia]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Braunlein |first=Peter J. |chapter=Flagellation |editor-last1=Melton |editor-first1=J. G. |editor-last2=Baumann |editor-first2=M. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v2yiyLLOj88C&pg=PA1119 |title=Religions of the World |date=2010 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-59884-204-3 |page=1119 |access-date=20 March 2023 |archive-date=10 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010050450/https://books.google.com/books?id=v2yiyLLOj88C&pg=PA1119 |url-status=live }}</ref>