Hauntingly Creepy, Victorian Christmas Cards. Which is Your Favourite? 🎄💀 . #christmas #scarytiktoks #creepyfacts #creepy #haunted #eerie #creepychristmas #krampus #HistoryTime #victorian #horror #ghoststories #ghoststory
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Today, we think of Christmas cards as festive and cheerful, but the Victorians had a rather different idea. After the publication of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and the introduction of German traditions, most families began sending Christmas cards by the 1870s, but they often depicted darker scenes and sinister characters like Krampus, the evil opposite of St Nicholas. This was likely to scare naughty children into behaving and a warning to the Scrooge-like members of society.
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