Victorian christmas cards

At Christmas, what better use of the internet is there than to share some hilariously creepy Christmas card art? Terrify your children with these classics.

Christmas cards in 2015 might carry a cheery Norwegian fir or a cheeky Santa but wind back the clock by 150 years and you'll find festive missives with an altogether more unusual flavour.

Christmas postcard with illustration of Santa Claus attempting to insert frightened child into sack, with "A Happy Christmas". Color postcard, ca. 1900. Missouri History Museum Photographs and Prints Collections. N39366.

If you think holidays are weird these days, then you clearly haven't seen these 19th-century Victorian Era Christmas cards that were just as creepy as those times themselves. Bored Panda has gone through an expansive TuckDB Ephemera's vintage Holiday greetings postcard collection to gather some of the most bizarre postcards ever made. From frogs stabbing each other to Krampus (a half-goat, half-daemon) entertaining the ladies in the best Victorian Era fashion manner... Yeah, there isn't a…

Murderous frogs, children boiled in teapots and a mouse riding a lobster are generally not images seen today on Christmas cards but in Victorian times it was all par for the course.

One of the best things about being on the internet as the holidays approach is getting to see all the Ephemera of Christmas Past—including the glorious weirdness of Victorian Christmas cards, like the one above, in which the annual Robin Christmas Party has gotten completely out of control? Click through for more! The earliest recorded […]

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Today, you will be visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. You know what, scratch that. We’re experiencing the present, and the future is too unpredictable. Let’s just focus on the past!

When you think of the Victorian era, you probably get serious images popping in your head. There is a good reason for that, photos from that period of

Anthropomorphic cats, murderous frogs, and insects dancing by the moonlight aren't exactly part of our Christmas card tradition today.