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