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| | Parentalia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | From February 13 through the 21st (the Feralia, FP or F, the feast of infernal powers)all temples were closed, marriages were forbidden, and public officials lay down their insignia of office. |
 | | It was a quiet, personal, reflective day, followed by a quiet reflective week or so to think about loved ones and the importance of the family. |
 | | The Feralia, was a much darker, scarier rite which in Ovid's description has overtones of witchcraft and magic and at which sheep were sacrificed to the spirits of the dead. |
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