I heard one of the commune leaders ask.

They discover the man, Kneller, an eccentric commune leader, had fallen asleep while looking for his dog.

"The commune leaders just wanted to control our money and exploit us for work around the commune," she says.

In March 1974 a bad drought prompted the local commune leader to send several farmers to dig a well in Lintong, just outside Xian.

Within a year of arriving, the commune leaders had become embroiled in a series of legal battles with their neighbours, the principal conflict relating to land use.

A hippy commune leader but so powerful.

Things were getting out of control and the commune leader was anxious that everybody prepared themselves for Walpurgisnacht and whatever it held for them.

Bert Potter, commune leader.

Everybody in the commune were assigned jobs by their commune leaders.

Charles Manson, career criminal and commune leader, recorded a series of songs with his "family"