Some WEIRD Victorian Christmas Cards
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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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
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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
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
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.
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!
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 😂
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.
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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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“.
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
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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 😀
You can’t tell me people were not into memes since the 1800’s
@@lisagorska7389 cool!
Your humor is unparalleled
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.
Ahh, yes, nothing reminds me of Christmas more than a *death messenger moth!*
Merry Crysler, folks.
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
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.
"Who's afraid?" I could not stop laughing. Excuse me while I try to recreate these and send them to my grandparents.
Whilst helping an elderly friend clean out her attic, we came across what she called “penny cards” or “half penny cards”. Smaller towns didn’t have phones. So we sat there and read whole conversations between her family members back in the Victorian day. I’m talking Hundreds of them! Most of these cards would not only have only one or two sentences but the front pictures were Fascinating! And boy did they run the gamut of scenery!
Thanks for that memory! ❤️🖤❤️
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
😂😂🙏🙏🙏🙏
Nothing says Christmas like frog on frog violence. Lmao!
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 UA-cam and it makes the cats come running and dog's ears go around.
@@rachelmaksy I love that your cat is named Binx.
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
"Who's afraid?"
Pure gold 😂
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 "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.
weird victorian christmas cards are my grandma’s specialty.
DUDE. These would be PERFECT 2020 Christmas cards.
The “who is afraid” card reminds me of that “who is dad. You. You is dad” card. Who is afraid? You. You is afraid.
9:52 Normal people receiving the card: *iS THIS A THREAT?!*
I dont like ants either! They move way too fast and way too organized!
Hahahaha YES
"Them! Them!" 🐜🐜🐜
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
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.
This is one of my comfort videos. One time I was having a rough moment and my friend started playing this video to help distract myself. Since then I always watch this video when I'm really sad, and it cracks me up each time.
How funny! All these traditions are now not even comprehensible. The goat, the hunting of the wren, xmas pudding, and I do believe that many of these cards had another caption inside. Rachel, you are a hoot!
Your videos just give me a warm, fuzzy feeling. So glad I randomly found you. 💃
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank yoooou 😭
The victorians were obsessed with death
🤣🤣🤣🐜🐜🐜 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!
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
I couldn’t stop laughing when she said “nothing says Christmas like frog on frog violence”
“Roast these babies... like a couple of chestnuts” I CANNOT STRESS HOW LOUDLY I SNORTED IT WAS INHUMAN
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
That one with the bag stems from a Dutch festivity: sinterklaas. Basically he's our equivalent of santa claus. Children who are naughty don't get a piece of coal, but ( in old versions) are beaten with a bundle of sticks (the "roe") or (in the old and the new versions) taken with sinterklaas into a bag and are kidnapped to spain.
Rachel interpreting Victorian Christmas Cards is my new favourite thing.
Not sure why, but I also don't like holiday cards with photos in them, so last year I made my own block-printed cards of a festive octopus. Family was... very polite about them.
*laughchokes* oh God bless your editing skills, Rachel! May YOURS be a joyful Christmas.
Preferably without goat heads, dead frogs, or fear inducing soldiers.
9:43 I sent this to my friends on Christmas morning and they acted like it was totally normal. This reaction is making me wonder if we're all just broken
"We here to get sassy."
Yes, yes we are. Always.
The joy this video brought me is unmeasureable
As you viewed these Christmas Cards, I had several hardy laughs. Thanks so much for your "interesting" sense of humour. I totally shared in it.
“Let’s talk about weird Victorian Christmas cards”
me:
Well yes, but actually yes
I don't think I've ever slammed on a thumbnail so hard. These are all amazing. That early Australian one though... you're right. That's very... Australian and we still see cards along those lines. I never buy them but they sure do exist.
Drunk robins was my favourite. What a festive mood.
I wonder if that dead bird one really was a "from the cat" card like we have nowadays.
That “Who’s Afraid?” Is so hilariously cryptic🤣🤣 and the Sledding chickens just kill me!😂
This is the Christmas content I've been waiting for my entire life. I laughed to hard I cried. I also cried. Amazing. Simply amazing.
That last card seems like it might have been a promotional for some sort of eco movement?... I mean... What else is it otherwise?? A very extreme "count your blessings" message??
I don't have even a trace of explanation for that "Who's afraid" one, though. You're like "aww that's kinda cute" and then you read it and are like "....wait what the heck".
"The kind of Christmas card my cat would give me" ahhhhh YES!🤣🤣🤣
I wish we had a christmas cardologist to give us the meaning behind these - I NEED to know why the goats so meaningful, or what that frog stabbing scene was, or why all these dead birds are good things. Theres an overwhelming theme of animals which is awesome and I'd love to understand the deeper meaning. Like you said - they're expensive - so people MUST have liked opening these cards
Watching this in September 2020, it's done. After how this year has been I'm sending these to my loved ones for Christmas.
the *christmas* whisper after the cat fight was just... *chef's kiss*
You are most epic at editing your videos. I’m sinking further and further down into my couch, cracking up and wiping away tears and my husband is like, “WHAT are you watching?!” The chickens sledding down the hill...with sound effects...brilliant 😂😂😂
10:03
this reminded me of a finnish christmas song called "a bird on a christmas morning"
it's about a girl giving a seed to a bird she finds in the cold one morning, then the bird tells her he's not actually a bird but her dead little brother who has come from heaven to see her on christmas.
some of the lyrics are "snow has already covered the flowers in the fields, the wave of the lake frozen in the cold winter weather", "it's christmas, my homeless bird's unhappy" and of course "my child, i'm not a bird of this world, i'm your little brother, i came from heaven" "the seed you gave to the poor, has now gotten your young brother from the land of angels".
basically all finnish christmas songs are depressing and sad. if not, they're translations.
I love this so much! I couldn’t stop laughing! These videos are so interesting because a lot of things from Victorian times like that are perplexing.
"Cause nothing says Christmas like the sound of a dump truck." Pair it with a decorated dump truck cartoon and that would make an awesome t-shirt for guys/boys. I think my favorite card was the nutcracker in the snow, it made me think of the nutcracker ballet.
Frodo's adorable!!!!!o
talarshistoricalsewing yesss I love that pup!
Rachel needs to this type of video for Valentin's day
*Roast them like a couple of chestnuts*
me: rabid snort laughter
My favorite is "Who's afraid?" I was not ready when she revealed and it caught me off guard
I stumbled on this late but I’m in hysterics with these. Wtaf are these?! 🤣
The man terrifyingly stuffing the child in the bag could be The Belsnickel. He is apart of PA Dutch lore as a substitute Saint Nicholas. The Belsnickel would test children in a game of goodness by throwing peanuts on the ground. If children have been 'Gut' (good) they would wait for his blessing to pick up the peanuts and The Belsnickel would reward them with candy mints. But if the children have been 'Schlecht' (bad) their greedy grubby hands would attempt to take the peanuts, resulting in The Belsnickel to smack the child with his switch and kidnap them by stuffing them in his bag... It also could be Knecht Ruprecht, who is does basically the same thing but without peanuts/candy. Knecht Ruprecht is also a servant to Saint Nicholas whereas the Belsnickel is a free man who beats children in for the Christmas cheer!
In my country, the Netherlands, we celebrate “Sinterklaas”, on the 5th of december. Originally an old Spanish bisschop, Sinterklaas comes by boat with his “pieten”, and brings presents in a big burlap sack, for the good kids. Bad kids are beaten with reets, and taken back to Spain in the burlap sack(not really of course). Maybe he is portrait on the card with the kid, who is put in a sack by a “santa look a like”.
i have one of these hanging on my wall!! received it from a friend last Christmas (it's the one with drunk birds on it) lol
This video is now a holiday tradition for me, and I still find it hilarious every time.
Finally, some quality holiday programming
I know this is nowhere NEAR christmas time but I literally cried watching this thank you Rachel
Merry Crisis to all!
Happy yule
@Amelia Acker Holy cow.... I forgot I commented this 🤣🤣🤣
Tragic 💀
Watching old videos - this one made me cry with laughter. Love all your videos!!
Christmastrees were actually already a thing in parts of the US before queen victoria popularised it even more. Queen victoria was engaged with a german royal and through him (bc Christmastrees at that time were already wildly known of in Europe and especially german speaking countries) she was shown the charm of christmastrees and it was actually him who wanted to have a christmastrees set up of Christmas.
I came for vintage UA-cam, I stayed because of cute doggo
The skating frogs 'coming to grief' refers to them slipping and falling on the ice.
And they look particularly unhappy.
The artwork of several of these cards looks nice, but the designs are a tad weird.
Santa stuffing the bad kid in the bag for removal was what the boy's parents had prayed for for Christmas!
I love that Rachel is the perfect combo of vintage and modern memeery
That little cowlick that Rachel developed throughout the video was so stinking cute! Also, I cannot say enough about how I need a new hair tutorial! Her hair always looks lovely!
You better watch out, you better not cry, OR THEY'LL HEAR YOU!
When the Mari Llwyd gets a shout out 🎉🐴💀
Well my mood is lifted. Merry Christmas Rachel!
That game reminds me of Miss Fischer's Murder Mysteries.
You too, huh?
I was not anticipating the cat fight sounds and didn't turn the volume down, so my cat was treated to those and had a complete freak out!! Woke her out of a dead sleep and she ran around the house to figure out who was fighting, then stayed on alert for quite a while after. 😂
Fun fact if you lost the rap battle u had to allow the person in the horse skull to come in and raid your pantry of its ale and food, all the while you’d have to stand there and watch and think about how u need to improve your rhythming ability
Lesson; Queen Victoria.... the real mother of memes. (And a boss in general)
Bethany Lauren Beiro If you do some looking around, a LOT of traditions we hold dear in the western world are rooted in Victorian England. Weddings, for example, are a big big one. Victoria wore white and it was a big deal, so everyone else did.
I love Victorian cards. My mom and I found a shoe box full of them at a antique store. Was very neat to look through them all.
In some traditions Santa punishes bad children by stuffing them into a sack and taking them home with him.
Rachel. You make my days not boring. Thank you.
Frodo as Santa Paws, so cute! This video was hilarious. I’m trying to manage my laughter so I don’t wake my husband up, but it’s really hard. I almost lost it with the Frosty card 🤣🤣. Thanks for spreading Christmas cheer.
Confusion reigned...I thought 'but it's not a crow, it's a cock and a hen'...duh...tfs🎄
Your doggo is adorable and that's on facts.
I laughed & laughed!! You're hilarious!! This made my day. These cards reminds me of this whole last year with the climax of a very sad, sad, strange Christmas. Hopefully 21 will be so much better!!
5:58 that, whatever it is, completely looks like a creature from hp lovecraft lore
I have the captions on & when Rachel said "aka", it came up as "Pinky May" & I love it so much 🤣