Some WEIRD Victorian Christmas Cards 

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!!!🎊

if you know you know😂

The weather outside is...weather.

big mood

Thats hilarious!

I can hear this comment

I thought so too!

Ashley Louise 😂😂😂😂

They were.

@mental H-how do you know

Frogg doggs sorcery

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.

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!

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

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 😂

@@lisagorska7389 cool!

Right?!!! 😂😂😂😂

Omg, isnt that a cool idea for a Rachel merch? I mean, I would buy such cards 😀

🤯

n o

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.

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🐐🔥🤣

🤣🤣🤣❤

@@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

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

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.

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“.

Seriously! This is now the plan for next year. This year will be spent searching. 😈

Favorite Christmas movie 🎄

Mary Chrysler

merry krizmus

Merry crisis

Oh yeah.. Those Kramps..

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.

😂😂🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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.

Manda May ours did as well

Hahahaha yep binx was VERY alert while I was editing 😂

They have cat sounds videos here on RU-vid and it makes the cats come running and dog's ears go around.

@@rachelmaksy I love that your cat is named Binx.

😂😂🙏🙏🙏🙏

She really does

How dare you! Unless that's a compliment...

Sarah Randall definitely a compliment

That is the best compliment u can receive

It's so gorgeous!

Does anyone know what she's wearing?

I instantly liked the video just because if that. 😍😍

yay, another welsh person! nadolig llawen!

kitty bax ‘Dolig Llawen i titha ‘fyd! A Blwyddyn Newydd Dda 🥳

Hehehehe

THANK YOU. The preponderance of goats really weirds me out every time I watch this card compilation! 😂

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 😂

Hahahaha YES

"Them! Them!" 🐜🐜🐜

Judith and Holo-frog-nes perhaps? No?? I'll just let myself out.....

@@terminologicalinexactitude ahh yes by Carafroggio

Hehehehhe

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank yoooou 😭

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!

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

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?

talarshistoricalsewing yesss I love that pup!