Some WEIRD Victorian Christmas Cards
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HaaaPPYY Holidays y'all. Here's some weird af Christmas cards, ENJOYYYY.
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HIIIIIII GUYS! So I think I'm going to try to take next week off which means I get to pull the age-old dad joke of "SEE YOU NEXT YEAR"! I hope you all have a lovely holiday and New Year and eats lots of yummy food!
Have a wonderful holiday Rachel :) See you in the new year!
Have a joyful Christmas.
Have a wonderful Christmas!
Have a lovely Christmas Rachel 🎄💕
Rachel Maksy Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!🎊
You better watch out
You better watch out
You better watch out
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
if you know you know😂
The weather outside is...weather.
big mood
Thats hilarious!
I can hear this comment
Why do I feel like greeting cards back then were like sending memes now.
I thought so too!
Ashley Louise 😂😂😂😂
They were.
@mental H-how do you know
Frogg doggs sorcery
The dead bird at the end of the video was for St. Stephen's day. It was a day to honor the fact he was the first martyr. The dead bird was supposed to represent the end of the old year and preparing for the new year. But still very strange.
I work at a museum where we use a lot of the cards during our Dickens program. Another favorite of mine is a mouse riding a lobster. haha.
Thanks for explaining!! So interesting.
Wow too cool, thanks for the info!!!😁👍❤❤❤
Omg 😂😂😂 I can't even picture a mouse riding a lobster
So interesting, thank you 🙂
I want Christmas' cards of a dead bird and a mouse on a lobster.
I need Victorian passive aggressive Christmas cards in my life.
Definitely going to be exactly the same 100 years from now. People looking back at our cards wondering why we have pictures of Christmas llamas, sloths and unicorns 😋
Hahahaha omg TRUE
Wait sloths are a common thing in Christmas cards??
I was not aware of this
@@DarkPrince784 it's a trendy thing right now...Winners has lots of it.
@@DarkPrince784 me neither 👀
Unicorn sloths
Have a happy Christmas and get in the bag
Santa used to be more of a disciplinarian figure and either he or Krampus would put naughty children in the sack and beat them with birch canes
Cecily Erker wow 😐
Jon Solo just didn’t a fun video on the Krampus theme.
D:
It’d be a happy Christmas for the parents of this child for em to not be screaming at them for a change 😂
I HaVE CoMe tO GrEET yU
I’m dying 😂 petition to bring back menacing Christmas cards 👀😆
Right?!!! 😂😂😂😂
Omg, isnt that a cool idea for a Rachel merch? I mean, I would buy such cards 😀
I feel like someone on Etsy should be reprinting these.
Seriously! I want the angry bird mob one. 😂
Good idea!
We need to get on this niche market
This is literally a year late, but I found a shop on Redbubble called forgotten beauty, and they are selling these cards and prints, including the dead bird.
@@AliceinDisneyWorld1125 Omg SAME!
Gotta love the Victorians, they wild
You can’t tell me people were not into memes since the 1800’s
@@lisagorska7389 cool!
People actually still celebrate Christmas/the Winter Solstice with Mari Lwyds! It's actually fairly cool, and despite being originally welsh it's popular in some parts of England too. There's actually a lot of parades where I live where the Mari Lwyds walk through the streets in a type of parade similar to a carnival
Love the video btw!
I love that!!! What a badass character!
That's so cool and different. Im so ignorant to other peoples and countries traditions (in the USA) it's cool to learn about the ones people still upkeep. I read into and now I have a frantic feeling I need to memorize some poetry hahaha
Also Welsh and can confirm this still happens!
Ahha! Was beaten to this :D Yep - still going! This is not a bad video to explain more www.wales.com/about/culture/mari-lwyd
That bit with "The perfect Christmas card for the emo in your life" just _killed_ me, you could even say it _sleighed_ me!
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the kitty sleeping next to me did not find the fight noises festive at all, but the red stripes on my very pale leg where he pushed off do have a bit of a candy cane vibe
Jessica Stevens my dog woke up to snarl and bark at the cat noises
My cat came running up looking to join in, lol
I apologize beforehand, but I literally LOL as I read this. 😂 My cats just looked at my tablet like "WTF kind of weird stuff is Momma watching now?" Lol
surprisingly, the cat on my lap and the cat in the chair near me didn't react. and yes, they're still alive.
Oh that ended bad for you. I'm sorry.
:( My sleeping kitty just got scared and I paused and skipped ahead for him.
In the Netherlands we have a Kinda Santa we call him Sinterklaas and he puts bad children in his bag and brings it with him to punish them so maybe that’s why he putted him in the bag
Cecilia Wubben we have the same guy in Switzerland 😂 called „Samichlaus“. He also has a servant named „Schmutzli“.
Well that's terrifying
Raven the Collie it’s a myth. He gives naughty children a lecture to do better next year and in severe cases puts them in the bag for a short minute 😝 He mainly brings the children peanuts, clementines and chocolate! And he loves to hear them recite a poem or two 😂
Bina Turtle we call the servants Zwarte Pieten. And say they get spankings when kids are bad. He comes 5 December and Santa just at Christmas so both in same month
Cecilia Wubben interesting!! Does it mean „black Peter“ because he’s dirty from working coal? Because „Schmutzli“ basically means „dirty“ 🙈 In my country Samichlaus together with his servant visits the families with children on the 6. of december aka „Saint Nikolaus-Day“.
You honestly look like a young molly weasley
How dare you! Unless that's a compliment...
Sarah Randall definitely a compliment
That is the best compliment u can receive
Here in Iceland we have huge wooden goat that gets put up every year outside the Ikea and every year it gets burned down. They put people to guard it and it still gets burned down HAHA
So you guys copy the people in my hometown with our christmas goat?😜 google: Gävle christmas goat (sweden). we've been (illegaly) burning our huge straw goat since the 60's🐐🔥🤣
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@@nennawah Hi, Didn't they catch one guy doing it some years back and he was British? Very unusual. To catch and prosecute I mean. The guy being British... I can see a conspiracy theory coming up the road... God Jul och Gott Nytt År and Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Yours, Ann
@@annlidslot8212 uhm I don't think a British person have ever burned it down. Back in 2001 an American burned it down, thinking it was legal and he got a few months in jail🤪 the rest of the goat burners have been Swedish as far as I know. God Jul & Gott nytt år!🎄🎅 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!🎄🎅
@@nennawah Hi, Ah, American yes that must be the guy I was thinking of. Well there goes the conspiracy theory. It wasn't any good anyway so this is better. Didn't you have the goat up almost until Christmas Eve one year fairly recently and how long did you get to keep him up this year?
For you people outside of Sweden, The Christmas Ram (male goat) was a prominent personality in Swedish Christmas folklore He started out as one of the St Stefan's boys making a nuisance of themselves on the day of St Steven. After they had been made redundant the Mighty Ram, got the job as the Bringer of gifts (and firewood for the wicked, for some reason) on Christmas Eve (we celebrate Christmas on the eve and not on Christmas Day as is the usual thing in the English speaking world) I believe. When he lost that part to "Santa" he got the smaller role of banging on the doors and windows and bringing the the firewood, via a sack full of them thrown through the front door (at least that was the story my dad told me, and he claimed he remember The Ram and his firewood from when he was young. Before that, well he wasn't that old). After that the Ram has retired and Santa delivers the presents, no one gets any firewood any more.
By the way, if anyone knows a better story about the Mighty Christmas Ram I'd be delighted to hear where I went wrong and being corrected. Yours, Ann
I don't know why, "She got horn duty" cracked me up so much. 😂
Lindsey M Same. I laughed so loud. I definitely started crying at the ants story though.
@@parryyotter 😂😂
Lindsey M and the little horn girl was like, "I'll blow your horn, just don't lick me." Oooh, that unintentionally sounded nasty.
Merry Krampus
Favorite Christmas movie 🎄
Mary Chrysler
merry krizmus
Merry crisis
Oh yeah.. Those Kramps..
I suddenly have the inexplicable urge to find weird and unsettling christmas cards to send to my friends and family. I wish these were still available as postcards, they're hilarious. :'D
Seriously! This is now the plan for next year. This year will be spent searching. 😈
About Krampus:
In Austria on St. Nicholas day there usually (at least in my area in south-styria) come people dressed as St. Nicholas and Krampus to the house to bring presents.
My mum told stories about how Krampus would literally hit the children with a rod if they were naughty. They guys dressed as Krampus would usually be teen boys, that, for doing that, would get food and presents themselves from the parents of the children.
Ahh, yes, nothing reminds me of Christmas more than a *death messenger moth!*
Merry Crysler, folks.
Nothing says Christmas like frog on frog violence. Lmao!
I really liked the bird match mob card actually 😊
I think in Finland Santa used to be a goat man or an old man dressed as a goat (pre Saint Nick) That’s probably what all the goat cards are about.
THANK YOU. The preponderance of goats really weirds me out every time I watch this card compilation! 😂
That lipstick!!!!!!!
It's so gorgeous!
Does anyone know what she's wearing?
Heeey there, Welsh person here! Y Mari Lwyd is pronounced Ugh Marry Loo-ihd 👌🏻 So many sleep paralysis demons on xmas cards and I love it!
yay, another welsh person! nadolig llawen!
kitty bax ‘Dolig Llawen i titha ‘fyd! A Blwyddyn Newydd Dda 🥳
I need more videos like these. I can't stop laughing at your commentary and I woke up my cat 😂 edit: and the added audio clips of the roosters and the cat fight 😂
Heehhee❤️❤️
mine woke when the cat sounds came. 😄
@@magda23792 my cat is used to me playing weird cat videos, so she didn't budge to that. But the "laughing so hard I started coughing because I'm on week 3 of a cold" definitely bothered her 😂
Ikr? I wish there would be part 2. Its 4am where i live and I watched this because I cant fall asleep and tried so hard not to wake anyone because of my laughing 😂
The postcard with killed frog reminds me of vine "
-what did you get me ?
- mur
-what mur ?
- _MURDER_ "
Your humor is unparalleled
Cultural background really is important in these! The goat makes sense in Finland, the word for Santa is "joulupukki", which in fact means "Christmas goat". The Santa stuffing a kid into the bag makes sense in Belgium, where naughty children get punished by being put in a bag and taken away on the 6th of December.
Maybe it's my lady problems approaching but I legit teared up when you played that Sarah McLaughlan bit... 😂 My brother gives antique Christmas cards - one from 1879 had an orphan in rags warming themselves by a tiny fire, another featured a terrified boy climbing his bedpost because his toys had come to life and were after him. Can't wait to see what this year brings!
My girl kitty, Lola, has had me replay the catfight SIX times already!!! Thanks alot!!
Meanwhile in 1800's Russia:
*an entire town aggresivly does intense ballet moves around a christmas tree with a very active orchestra in the background*
i seem to remember that in germany we have tales about st. nick stuffing naughty children into his bag and taking them away so i'm gonna assume that's what your favourite card references
nor I thought Krampus did that? I probably spelled that wrong so I’m sorry.
Difference in traditions between Germany and Austria 😉. In Germany we don’t have Krampus but Knecht Ruprecht who is a helper of St. nick stuffing naughty children into a sack and beating them or only giving them coal as presents 😅
yeah krampus is austrians, but also afaik both knecht ruprecht and krampus are more recent figures that were invented in order to represent the punitive side of st. nick because i guess it just vibed better with the character to not have him be both a gift giver but also a kidnapper
Oh ok :) thank you for the information.
Mr. Frodo your Hat is precious
I instantly liked the video just because if that. 😍😍
The one card where santa puts the child in a bag reminds me off a holiday here in the Netherlands. Sinterklaas (saint Nicholas) has the same thing with the good and bad, but in the Netherlands if you were bad, the story was that he would put you in a bag and take you to spain with him. So I think it's both kind off mixed
I HAVE COME TO GREET YOU !
My cats both came running at those cat fight sounds 😂 they’re very concerned
Manda May ours did as well
Hahahaha yep binx was VERY alert while I was editing 😂
They have cat sounds videos here on TH-cam and it makes the cats come running and dog's ears go around.
@@rachelmaksy I love that your cat is named Binx.
Watch horrible histories season 2 episode 14
It will explain why they are like that
Need to check that one out...
Jemma F.A.B Where would I find that?
(I’m googling...)
You should find it on youtube if not maybe Netflix.
Is it the Christmas special?
5:00 mother! He cried, as William has been taken, by Saint Nicholas - this did not however phase her, as this was an annual entanglement
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I am dying with laughter. These cards are so threatening WHAT was the christmas vibe in the 19th century.
"Who's afraid?" I could not stop laughing. Excuse me while I try to recreate these and send them to my grandparents.
One of the "Christmas" cards I'm sending this year I just... painted tentacles. That's it. That's the card.
They better love it.
I dont like ants either! They move way too fast and way too organized!
Hahahaha YES
"Them! Them!" 🐜🐜🐜
Apparently I was born 200 years too late to live out my true calling: an illustrator for Victorian Christmas cards.
I want that owl one....also "I have come to greet you Goat: should be the new meme of 2020
And the "Who's Afraid?" nutcracker sounds like the start of a horror film
I'm wheezing. My husband thinks I'm nuts
Hehehehe
They are kinda creepy lol! Enjoy your break! See you next year!
"Would you like to live deliciously?"
😂😂😂😂
Last time I was this early the visual language of christmas hadn't come around yet.
😂😂🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
This video is honestly the funniest and most entertaining thing I've seen in a while. This is the quality content I've been looking for
Rachel needs to this type of video for Valentin's day
weird victorian christmas cards are my grandma’s specialty.
Watching this outloud to bring the Christmas cheer, and my boyfriend (who I didn't know was listening) states after she announces the final Christmas card as having a dead bird, "sounds like that card is to you, from a cat". Honestly.....fair enough
*Roast them like a couple of chestnuts*
me: rabid snort laughter
“June” looks like Phryne Fisher from Miss Fisher’s Murder Mystery tv series. I laughed out loud with the Krampus card with child in the basket & the frog on frog violence. Merry Christmas
🤣🤣🤣🐜🐜🐜 gotta watch out for those ants in your pants
I once had an Earwig in my tights and I was telling my mum "somethings biting me" she didn't believe me until after we got home and I was covered in bites and the little Earwig went running across the floor where the dog scooped it up and ate it!
@@PrincessPikka ahahahaha
@@PrincessPikka Good dog!
Goats used to be very festive. Saint Nick as said to bring or ride on a goat when giving presents. In Scandinavia children used to go "julebukk", walking from house to house, singing Christmas carols and getting some sweets in return. We also make Christmas goats out of hay as decorations still.
Your videos just give me a warm, fuzzy feeling. So glad I randomly found you. 💃
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank yoooou 😭
The snowman card and the Christmas pudding card are my FAVOURITES
I downloaded June’s Journey since it was the second time you talked about it! Basically I wanted to support you and them for sponsoring a video. But holy crap is it fun! I’m really enjoying the story & sometimes I suck at finding the stuff (hot tip y’all, you can ZOOM! It’s a game changer!) but I’m getting better and really enjoying it!
These remind me of finnish christmas cards. Most of them have birds and the vibe in the cards is always really melancholic lol.
9:52 Normal people receiving the card: *iS THIS A THREAT?!*
Fun thing about the skeleton horse, the Welsh tradition includes wearing a horse skull and a sheet and going around Christmas caroling at midnight on Christmas Eve
The "Who's afraid?" card with the toy soldier might be a reference to Hans Christian Andersen's Steadfast Tin Soldier.
Victoria Parnell I agree, but it’s a wee bit cryptic for a card...
It might also be a reference to St Stephen's Day/Boxing Day and the hunting of the wren. In Ye Olde England and Ireland, they had a charming Christmas tradition where you got your boys together and went out to hunt and kill a tiny bird. Because. Reasons.
That opening cut with Frodo, he looks like he has seen some stuff. 😂 Thanks I love it.
DUDE. These would be PERFECT 2020 Christmas cards.
I know this is nowhere NEAR christmas time but I literally cried watching this thank you Rachel
Ngl, its 12:30am and I'm trying not to burst out laughing cuz I'll wake everyone up
Hehehehhe
Sharing this one on my FB; too funny. This one speaks to me cuz I remember seeing these kinds of cards when my German grandparents were around...
The victorians were obsessed with death
Hahaha omg, I can't believe someone really sent some of those cards to someone. I mean, WHY? Some of them are at least cute (like the one with the cats sitting on that ...thing), but most of them are simply disturbing. Especially the ones with the dead bird, the murdered frog and the Krampus. That one was from Germany - I wish my ancestors would not have been that creepy ^^.
This is one of the funniest videos you've ever done! And the special effects! Delightful!
I am catching up on some of your older videos. This had me cry laughing.
You are awesome! Thank you for the fun times!
yes, 80's bangs forsure!!!
And Frodo had the look on his face, "like really mom you put this on my head". Happy Christmas Rachel.
OMG - those cards you‘ve found are awesome :) - thx, that was fun!
Cheers from Switzerland where it‘s common for Saint Nikolaus to put kids into big bags when they where mean 🙈...
Hahahhaa really?!!!! I didn't know that was actually part of his lore! 😂😂
"Who's afraid?"
Pure gold 😂
I cried laughing while watching this. I was worried I wouldn't make it through.
THE PUDDING MAN THOUGH
“Let’s talk about weird Victorian Christmas cards”
me:
Well yes, but actually yes
I especially liked the dead frog with the dagger in its vital while the live one is robbing him
I don't know what that bird on the Australian card is but it's definitely not an emu and I'm concerned
This video got me crying
It's called a Brolga, one of our native Cranes, they're known for their elaborate mating dances.
@@MeliaSun yikes😅
The Christmas Brolga
@@TheWatercolourNymph Never mentioned in any Australian Christmas tradition. Nor is anything that's going on in that picture, really. Kangaroos are mentioned but there is no known tradition of them painting a picture of a brolga while wearing a dressing gown.
@@thoughtengine lol
Oh my goodness Frodo in a santa hat was all I needed for Christmas!
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh! Im mortified! Really second guessing my time machines play list for the 1800s... thank goodness (yet again) for cats and owls...
YES👏THIS👏IS👏MY👏SHIT👏
The "I have come to greet you" goat and the "Who's afraid?" nutcracker are one of my favs. If I had the time and resources I would research the heck out of these cards to get the context for the really bizarre ones. I do know that there were a lot of random sea life and botanical pieces cards 'cause a lot of naturalist illustrators jumped on the opportunity to illustrate postcards so that's why you'll see cards that have random flying jellyfish and the like.
Oh I think the frog murder scene is based on the Judith Slaying Holofernes painting and story...which makes me kind of like it....maybe...
Judith and Holo-frog-nes perhaps? No??
I'll just let myself out.....
@@terminologicalinexactitude ahh yes by Carafroggio
Have watched this a number of times still love it
The “who is afraid” card reminds me of that “who is dad. You. You is dad” card. Who is afraid? You. You is afraid.
Honestly, those skating frogs speak to my rollerskating soul.
I couldn’t stop laughing when she said “nothing says Christmas like frog on frog violence”
I dont know what was with Victorians and death, violence and riots, summarizing all these wonderful things in a picture for Christmas time, but I am enjoying their morbid fascinations haha!
Petition to bring back rap battles as part of Christmas tradition
she looks like santas academic daughter, a lovely aesthetic
Rachel interpreting Victorian Christmas Cards is my new favourite thing.
This really inspires me to continue work on my series of passive aggressive and vaguely threatening Christmas cards.
Frodo's adorable!!!!!o
talarshistoricalsewing yesss I love that pup!
I've been looking for these Victorian inspired cards for ages. Such a nice gimmick to spice up the Christmas card tradition :-)
Can this be a yearly thing? Or seasonal even? I laughed so hard!
I am equally amazed and creeped out by these cards. Your commentary is fabulous :D
Confusion reigned...I thought 'but it's not a crow, it's a cock and a hen'...duh...tfs🎄
My cat came barreling into the room when that audio of the cat fight played and he's just sitting next to the computer looking so incredibly concerned.