Some people used to believe that if a woman saw a robin flying overhead on Valentine’s Day, it meant she would marry a sailor. If she saw a sparrow, she would marry a poor man and be very happy. If she saw a goldfinch, she would marry a millionaire.
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The first European post boxes appeared in Paris in the late eighteenth century, which revolutionized the way Valentine cards were produced and delivered.
In the middle Ages, people believed that the first unmarried person of the opposite sex you met on the morning of St. Valentine’s Day would become your spouse.
Each year 300,000 letters go through Loveland, Colorado, to get a special heart stamp cancellation for Valentine’s Day.
There is a town in Texas called Valentine, but for not for a romantic reason. The first train to arrive there happened to do so on February 14.
One billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making it the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. Women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines
To abolish the pagan custom of the Valentine lottery in which boys would draw the names of girls and then pay special attention to them during the holiday, Christian leaders urged boys to substitute saints names on the tickets. This may have led to the later nineteenth-century habit of calling them Valentines after one of the prominent martyred saints. The move was not very popular and did not last long.
In Germany, girls would plant onions in a pot on Valentines Day, and next to the onions, they placed the name of a boy. They believed they would marry the boy whose name was nearest the first onion to grow.
This is a Scottish Love Spell
Place an ivy leaf between your breasts (the symbol of marriage and fidelity) and say:
“Ivy leaf, I love you true
in my bosom I hold you.
The first young man who smiles at me
my future husband he shall be.”
Place an ivy leaf between your breasts (the symbol of marriage and fidelity) and say:
“Ivy leaf, I love you true
in my bosom I hold you.
The first young man who smiles at me
my future husband he shall be.”
While Hallmark offers thousands of different cards for Valentine's Day, one card was the top choice of customers in New York, Los Angeles, and virtually every other city in the country in 2006.
Esther Howland (1828-1904) was the first person to create Valentines to sell in the United States. She first patented a lacy Valentine in 1844and by 1860, her factory was selling thousands of Valentines, earning over $100,000.
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