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===Loveday death=== | ===Loveday death=== | ||
Subsequently, a young [[ | Subsequently, a young [[Thelema|Thelemite]] named Raoul Loveday moved to the Abbey with his wife Betty May; while Loveday was devoted to Crowley, May detested him and life at the commune. She later said that Loveday was made to drink the blood of a sacrificed cat, and that they were required to cut themselves with razors every time they used the pronoun "I." | ||
Conditions at the Abbey were unsanitary, and wild dogs and cats wandered throughout the building. Loveday drank from a local polluted stream, soon developing a liver infection resulting in his death in February 1923. | Conditions at the Abbey were unsanitary, and wild dogs and cats wandered throughout the building. Loveday drank from a local polluted stream, soon developing a liver infection resulting in his death in February 1923. | ||