Brewer's: Dies Sanguinis

The 24th March, called Bellona's Day, when the Roman votaries of the war-goddess cut themselves and drank the sacrificial blood to propitiate the deity.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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