Joanna Southcott, The Panacea Society & The Mystery Box

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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The end of the 18th Century saw the birth of a long line of religious movements focused on the end of days and the biblical second coming. Central to this string of beliefs was an unimposing domestic servant who began to have visions in her mid-life, which she claimed were divine in nature, eventually leading to her insistence that she was a prophetess and at the young age of 64, was pregnant with the new messiah. Far from fading away after the holy childs due date came and went, the movement continued under several different guises for hundreds of years, culminating with the belief in a holy book of dinner etiquette and a mysterious wooden box, the contents of which were lying in wait until called upon to rescue Britain from its catastrophic end. SOURCES The TImes (1815) The TImes, Monday 2 Jan, 1815, London, UK The Stamford Mercury (1815) Dissection of Joanna Southcott. Monday 2 Jan, 1815, UK. Madden, Deborah (2016) Prophecy in the Age of Revolution. Prophecy and Eschatology in the Transatlantic World, 1550 - 1800 (pp.259-281), University of Brighton, UK. Cross, George (1915) Millenarianism in Christian History. The Biblical World, Jul., 1915, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Jul., 1915), pp. 3-8. The University of Chicago Press, USA. Lockley, Philip (2012) Visionary Religion and Radicalism in Early Industrial England: From Southcott to Socialism. Oxford University Press, UK Southcott, Joanna (1792) The Strange Effects of Faith: With Remarkable Prophecies. T. Brice, Exeter, UK. Southcott, Joanna (1814) The Third Book of Wonders: Announcing the Coming of Shiloh. Exeter, UK. Shaw, Jane (2012) Octavia, Daughter of God. Vintage Books, UK. Price, Harry (1933) Leaves From a Psychist’s Case-Book. Victor Gollancz Ltd, UK ---------- For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	The end of the 18th century saw the birth of a long line of religious movements focused
0:08.2	on the end days in the biblical second coming.
0:12.2	Central to this string of beliefs was an unimposed domestic servant who began to have visions
0:17.8	in her midlife, which she claimed were devouring in nature.
0:22.1	This eventually led to her insistence that she was a prophetess, and at the young age
0:26.8	of 64 was pregnant with the new Messiah.
0:31.4	Far from fading away after the holy child's due date came and went, the movement continued
0:36.7	under several different guises for hundreds of years, culminating with the belief in
0:41.8	a holy book of dineratica and a mysterious wooden box, the contents of which were lying
0:47.7	in wait until called upon to rescue Britain from its catastrophic end.
0:53.1	This is Dark History where the facts are worse than fiction.
1:00.2	Hello and welcome to Dark History's Season 5 episode 7.
1:03.6	I'm Ben, the host as always, and I hope this episode finds you very well and in good
1:08.2	health.
1:09.2	I saw this being the 7th episode of the fifth season.
1:12.1	It's also, wait for it, episode 100, which is an incredible landmark just to have made
1:18.8	it this far.
1:19.8	And you know, it's definitely thanks to you, really, for listening and getting in contact
1:26.2	and all the support you've given me over this last 100 episodes.
1:30.6	So yeah, I mean, it's just a little thing I wanted to mention before we start.
1:34.7	You know, thanks for the last 100 episodes and I guess here's to another 100 more.
1:40.6	So yeah, let's just get straight into it.
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