Creepy Victorian Christmas Cards

[SeaBreeze]

Some of these are very disturbing, but I guess they were popular at the time.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/12/creepy-victorian-christmas-cards.html

 

[Gardenlover]

Some of these are very disturbing, but I guess they were popular at the time.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/12/creepy-victorian-christmas-cards.html

The last one resembles a type of Krampus.

 

[Aunt Bea]

This poor guy is in a little hot water!

 

[Gardenlover]

I wonder if these types of cards harken back to the mostly forgotten tradtion of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve.

Mamillius proclaims, “A sad tale’s best for winter.”

 

[Wren]

Victorian New Years cards weren’t any better !!

 

[Pinky]

You think these are creepy .. then there's the Victorian "memento mori" photographs

 

[RadishRose]

What was wrong with them?

 

[Pepper]

What was wrong with them?

sexually repressed

 

[RadishRose]

You think these are creepy .. then there's the Victorian "memento mori" photographs

I can't look at those!

 

[Pepper]

I can't look at those!

Smart move. I did. Wish I didn't.

 

[Wren]

Of course, I had to, didn’t I ? Ewwwwwwwwwwww what was wrong with those people !!

 

[Pepper]

sexually repressed