Ep. 36 - Victorian Cults: Messiahs, Manipulation & Custom Tea Blends

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Ep. 36 - Victorian Cults: Messiahs, Manipulation & Custom Tea Blends On today’s episode, Genevieve is talking about Victorian era cults: the bonkers beliefs, the scandals, manipulation, devil children, corpses in bath tubs, custom tea blends, and what inspired these cults to come about in the first place. References for today’s episode: https://medium.com/@pau1morgan/the-lampeter-brethren-a-victorian-sex-cult-e318213d7b7f https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agapemonites https://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/abode%20of%20love.htm https://headstuff.org/culture/history/terrible-people-from-history/henry-james-prince-john-hugh-smyth-pigott-agapemonite-messiahs/ https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/acsq/article/1490/&path_info=ACSQ_2021.02_130.pdf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreshan_Unity https://floridatraveler.com/koreshan-state-park/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/917741876/?match=1&terms=Agapemonite https://medium.com/illumination/blurred-lines-how-our-culture-echoes-cult-like-patterns-181bcb9b600a https://conflicttransformation.substack.com/p/responding-to-cults-as-a-social-conflict Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.9	Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare. I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion, and I'm here to
1:09.7	talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations,
1:13.7	disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.
1:19.4	Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing, creepy, and oddly comforting
1:25.1	about horror and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener discretion
1:30.6	is advised.
1:38.6	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 36th episode. I hope that you had a relaxing week. I took myself on a
1:49.8	stomachache date this week, which I very much enjoyed until I got the stomach egg. But I asked for it.
1:55.2	I went in expecting exactly what I got. We had a feisty eclipse on the new moon last Saturday,
2:03.6	and around eclipses, I just, I stop everything. I take baths, I get a massage. I continue to watch exactly the same horror comfort
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