~ Victorian Christmas Cards ~

I have always had a fascination for antique postcards ~

any holiday...but the Christmas ones are quite strange indeed.

From their morbidity, to the just plain strange!

here are a few that have made me say...

 "....Hmmmm...."

I mean, 

creepy walking root-vegetable men?

or how about a kidnapping santa?

this one cracks me up - just look at their little legs!

 

a little too much eggnog perhaps?

 

and doesn't a cat-fight outside a tenement window just scream Happy Christmastide?

or would you prefer a gang of torch-carrying birds to lighten your way?

 

I especially adore the Krampus character, being that I love Halloween so very much ~

 he scared the H E double-hockey-sticks outta me as a child though!

this one stumps me:

 

ever heard of the Yule Goat?

or perhaps sled-riding, well dressed chickens?

 

but

I do prefer the plain old, 

creepy guy that we have all come to love the best though

 

Blessings from the Farm

 ~ Lori