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Enigmatic_Continuum ago

What was the original Hellfire Club like?

Meetings would be held twice a year. Invitations were sent by the Prior and costumes were required to be worn by attendees. These meetings were recorded in 1779 in a book called Nocturnal Revels.

Every member attending would be allowed to eat well and enjoy the company of “cheerful ladies of lively dispositions”. Sex and wine certainly seem to have been a major part of the rituals – even the landscape was sexualized.

The gardens included a Temple of Venus and Parlour of Venus as well as statues of Pan and Priapus – perfect for a club dedicated to divine procreation.

Who were the original members and what were they like?

Members included the notorious John Wilkes, whose political spat with fellow monk, and founding member, the Earl of Sandwich (yes, that was a real guy), would expose the activities of the club to censure and cement its notoriety in the public imagination, Benjamin Franklin, founding father of the USA and fan of the madness inducing glass harmonica, Chevalier D’Eon the sexually ambiguous cross-dressing French Spy, and George Selwyn the eighteenth centuries own necrophiliac ‘gentleman sadist’, to name but a few.

https://historyhustle.com/the-hellfire-club/ Modern Spinoffs of the Hellfire Club:

BRYAN SINGER attempted to pay homage to the HELLFIRE CLUB associated with MARVEL COMICS.

When Fox revealed the Hellfire Club premise a year or so ago, the pitch was focused on a young special agent tracking a woman with mutant powers in the 1960s. The mystery woman would've been involved with a secret society of millionaires intent on world domination. http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/what-happened-to-the-hellfire-club-tv-series-the-gifted-happened

Marvel Comics Hellfire Club http://marvel.com/comics/characters/1009340/hellfire_club

The Sydney Hellfire Club (NSFW) https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/376774579/the-sydney-hellfire-club/?hl=en

The_Real_Wahrheit ago

Not sure if it is relevant, but one of the most dangerous areas in the Ypres salient in WWI Belgium was called "Hellfire Corner".

Enigmatic_Continuum ago

Interesting! It very well might be related because it appears that the Hellfire club spread its tentacles into other countries.

The_Real_Wahrheit ago

And while it wasn't this Hellfire Corner, what a strange coincidence. Tunnels!

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5822161

The_Real_Wahrheit ago

This is the WWI Ypres version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKTRk7lrm7c