Ep. 29 - Butchery with Banjos and Vinegar Valentines

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, we will have butchery with banjos, naked maniacs decapitating people, Lesbians, more butchery, some charming insults that Victorians liked to send to one another on Valentines day, and a very special love poem. References for today's episode: “A Naked Man's Horrible Deeds,” Illustrated Police News, December 18, 1880 "Butchered" With a Banjo,” Illustrated Police News, July 3, 1880 “Bloody Butchery,” Illustrated Police News, January 31, 1880 https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/misogyny-created-a-space-for-women-to-f-ck-in-the-19th-century-d32f6ab34e48 https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/misogyny-created-a-space-for-women-to-f-ck-in-the-19th-century-d32f6ab34e48 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-same-sex-valentines-day Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare. I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion,
0:09.1	and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise
0:16.1	spooky events from the Victorian era. Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing,
0:22.6	creepy, and oddly comforting about horror and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener
0:30.6	discretion is advised.
0:35.6	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 29th episode. I hope that you had a lovely week. Mine was very
0:48.9	exciting and very joyful and full of anxiety because of all the horrors, and also just full of gratitude.
0:57.1	Myself and a lot of people, I think,
0:59.1	have finished licking our wounds
1:01.5	and we are polishing off our sledgehammers.
1:05.2	Gotta get to work.
1:06.1	I also discovered the greatest thing
1:09.1	that you could do for yourselves right now, I promise. If you
1:11.9	are feeling a bit overwhelmed right now, that is on purpose. All of the garbage on the news is
1:18.5	doing that on purpose. If you feel really worn out, really shaken, and you live in a chilly
1:24.6	climate like most of the states, take a little trip to your local zoo or botanical garden,
1:32.1	and you're going to find a very specific area.
1:34.7	It's likely that your zoo or botanical garden has a tropical area.
1:40.1	You're going to find this area,
1:41.6	and you're going to take your coat off and take your cute little earmuffs off and walk into the tropical heaven scape and just stand there for a bit.
1:51.3	Oh God, it was like 18 degrees or something in the city and I was really stressed out about some
1:57.8	stuff so I just popped a fistful of gummy bears in my mouth and I trotted on down
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