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

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On Today’s episode, Genevieve will have a deathbed confession, the accidental death of a horse fancier, a horrific elevator accident, a horrific mowing machine accident, naughty picture book advertisements, a butchered brother in law, a case of Victorian cat fishing, a hairbreadth escape, and more!

References for today’s episode:

“The Avondale Horror. A Deathbed Confession” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30, 1871.

“A Bottle of Horse Medicine Kills a Horse Fancier” - The Illustrated Police News, December 21, 1871.

“A Chambermaid Crushed by an Elevator” - The Illustrated Police News, December 14, 1871.

“A Man Butchers his Brother In Law in Tippecanoe, Ohio - Tragical Result of a Whisky Quarrel” - The Illustrated Police News, November 9th, 1871.

“Marrying By a Photographic Proxy - An innocent Nebraskan Ensnared by a Touched-Up Picture” - The Illustrated Police News, December 28, 1871.

“A Truly Terrible Death - A mowing machine Literally Slices a Man to Pieces” - The Illustrated Police News, August 29th, 1873.

“Affray Between Two Ladies of Fashion in the Streets of St. Louis” - The Illustrated Police News, December 7, 1871.

“A Saddening Story” - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

“A Hairbreadth Escape - A Mississippi Girl Saves a Drowning Man in a Curious Manner” - The Illustrated Police News, August 28, 1873.

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2022/09/fifth-avenue-hotel-opulence-atop.html

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2010/10/i-sit-on-your-grave-new-yorks-hidden.html

https://wynninghistory.com/2019/03/04/avondale/

https://thetroyhistoricalsociety.org/obits/John%20Aston.htm

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On tonday’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the repugnant trade of body snatching in the Victorian era, she’ll discuss the ways families fought back, she’ll introduce you to the 2 most infamous body snatchers of all time; Burke and Hare, and we’ll run into a few friends along the way.

References for today’s episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24794

https://www.civilwarmed.org/bodysnatching/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coffin-torpedos

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028490/1881-01-20/ed-1/seq-8/

https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/beating-the-bodysnatchers

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/grave-guns-coffin-torpedoes-vintage-defenses-aimed-foil-grave-robbers/

https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=history

https://history.utk.edu/from-grave-robbing-to-giving-your-own-body-to-science-a-short-history-of-where-medical-schools-get-cadavers/

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On Today’s’s episode, Genevieve is diving back into the Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record: everyone’s favorite bananas, blood-soaked, spooky little tabloid from the 1800s. She will have a hat-wafting seance, a thrilling search for a dead body, wax necks, jealous husbands, mayhem, a shocking discovery in a penitentiary, an alarming growth of intoxication among young ladies, and more!

References for Today's Show:

https://www.magicianmasterclass.com/post/how-do-magicians-levitate#viewer-aqfts

“The Last “Thing” in Fashion, The Wax Neck” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

“Spiritual Manifestations at a Seance in Boston on New Year’s Eve” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

“Thrilling Search for the Body of a Murdered Man in MacDonald Co, Mo.,” Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872.

“A Young Lady Outraged and Then Murdered in Arkansas,”  Illustrated Police News, Dec, 28 1871.

“A Leap to Death in Cincinnati - An Unknown Unfortunate Jumps From a Bridge to Eternity,” Illustrated Police News, August, 28 1873.

“Taking a Farmer’s Wife, Baby and Potatoes to Market,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.

“How a Jealous Husband in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Returned Home and What He Found There,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.

“Alarming Growth of Intoxication Among Young Ladies - Sad Scene in a New Jersey Ferry Boat,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 7th, 1872.

“Extra Penance in a Penitentiary,” Illustrated Police News, Nov 30th, 1871.

“Mayhem,” Illustrated Police News, July 6th, 1876.

“A New Jersey Cannibal Gormandizes a Policeman’s Cheek,” Illustrated Police News, Dec 21st, 1871.

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On todays episode, Genevieve will return to 19th century London to discuss the Jack the Ripper murders case. She'll discuss the timeline, the victims, the suspects, and a few little known facts about the still open Whitechapel murders case. She’ll also discuss a very courageous photo shoot, and give her fairly coherent review of “The Monkey.”

References for today's episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/kate-eddowes-last-night.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jack-the-ripper-victim-elizabeth-stride.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/mary-kelly.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/suspects.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Eddowes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stride

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Kelly

"Bolton Spiritualists Vision of the Whitechapel Murderer "- The Bolton News, Oct 8, 1888

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On todays episode, Genevieve will dive deep into the Jack The Ripper case and guide you down the cold, damp, cobblestone streets of 19th century Whitechapel. She'll discuss the timeline, the victims, the suspects, and a few little known facts about the still open Whitechapel murders case.

References for today's episode:

https://www.science.org/content/article/does-new-genetic-analysis-finally-reveal-identity-jack-ripper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/emma-smith.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/martha-tabram-jack-the-ripper-victim.htm

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/life-and-death-of-mary-nichols.htm

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/jack-the-rippers-victims-were-not-prostitutes-says-historian-who-claims-sexist-victorian-policemen-unfairly-labelled-them/JSQ3BCTKULMV7LZVZTCVGEAISQ/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Elizabeth_Smith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Tabram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Nichols

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing the very macabre ways in which French Victorians would entertain themselves: the death-themed cabarets, horror shows in old gothic chapels, and the very upsetting and morbid curiosities that Parisians would literally trample over each other to get a glimpse of.

References for today's episode:

https://daily.jstor.org/the-cabarets-of-heaven-and-hell/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Guignol

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paris-morgue-public-viewing

https://dianamarin.com/tag/the-uncanny-cabaret-du-neant/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_de_L%27Enfer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_du_Ciel

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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

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On today's episode, Genevieve takes you on a tour of the Victorian Lunatic Asylum. She'll discuss the history of the institution, surprising and spine-chilling facts, as well as her very own terrifying experience of the time she broke into the Overbrook Asylum in New Jersey.

References for today's episode:

https://cpp-college.netlify.app/programs/education-blog/victorian-mental-health-and-women-part-one-american-asylums

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/victorian-mental-asylum

https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/netflix-2017/how-victorian-women-were-oppressed-through-the-use-of-psychiatry/1607/

https://www.talkspace.com/blog/history-inhumane-mental-health-treatments/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly

https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-places/americas-most-haunted-hospitals-and-asylums/overbrook-asylum/

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/8bcb0263e26f4ceeb6d41a00cfc72b7a?item=1

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On today's episode, Genevieve will discuss the 5 Points slum, a church lunatic, a woman that takes investment advice from her dead husband, a cannibalistic affair between 2 ladies, the curious caper of an unruly cow, a locomotive disaster, mayhem, mysterious tragedies and a man who saved an entire New Hampshire town because he loved his girlfriend a little too much.

References for today's episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Scapular%E2%80%93St._Stephen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan#:~:text=The%20local%20politics%20of%20%22the,racial%20integration%20in%20American%20history

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