Vintage Card; A Happy New Year, illustration of kittens in basket of flowers.
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Clock set at midnight, January 1 Greeting, images of Tomte/ gnomes, vintage postcard.
Happy New Year. #GothicAdvent
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Snowy owl perched on rock, mountain in background, snow is falling, owl is holding a stamped envelope in its beak which says, ‘To my friend, with best wish’ The card also says, ‘His note is sweet because, you see, The note’s a New Year wish from me’ *A bird is known by his note, and a man by his talk. Vintage New Years card.
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A figure with a prominent nose, dressed in a dark coat, is stood in the wicker basket of a hot air balloon. The basket is filled with several large, brightly wrapped presents with red ribbons. The balloon itself has a patterned fabric envelope with gold and red accents. Two winged figures, resembling angels, are flying in the swirling clouds; one reaches toward the balloon, while a smaller figure is visible in the lower right. Illustration.
🖼️ Edward Gorey
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Amazing Yule Goat costume by Nymla.
I think it’s the Christmas jumper that really makes it!
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1/3 The Norse believed that when the Wild Hunt, led by Odin, rode during #WinterSolstice, his horse Sleipnir would drip foam onto the earth.
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1/2 Holly is associated with protection. During the #Christmas season, holly boughs were brought inside to protect against #fairies & evil spirits. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3431... #FolkloreSunday #illustration #art #greetingcards #wintersolstice #folklore #GothicAdvent #giftideas
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The Spirit of Christmas Present in a green robe unveils two impoverished and malnourished urchin children
Ignorance and Want are two symbolic children Scrooge is forced to look at in A Christmas Carol, forcing him to see his wilful distain of the poor and his ignorance of the unfairness of society. Quite a few people today should learn the same lesson
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Here’s a great Yule Goat costume, just wondering around a Christmas market
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Hand drawn poster for 'The Bones of St Nicholas' episode featuring a hooded figure in a red cloak and various charcaters looking shocked
The Christmas special episode of 'Inside No.9' called 'The Bones of St Nicholas' is a great short bit of folk horror and drama to get in a spooky Christmas mood with. It's on BBC iPlayer and probably some other places too
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Pencil drawing of Old Father Christmas old man with a long white beard carrying a yule log and wassail bowl.
I love this Victorian drawing of Father Christmas: pagan Yule log and holly crown, wassail bowl, mischeivous glint in his eye
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Line drawing of a room full of people in uproar, falling over each other, and running to escape through a door and up some stairs from a sheet-shrouded apparition on the right holding a candle. Behind the being a boy can be seen holding it up on a wooden pole.
"Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres"
Jerome K. Jerome, 1891 #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly #GothicAdvent
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Victorian Christmas card, cream background, illustration of candle with face decoration in tree, its ringing a bell, next to a biscuit decoration, Merry Christmas.
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LITTLE JACK FROST - a warning to put away tender plants from an 1875 poem #GothicAdvent #FolkloreSunday
Little Jack Frost walked through the trees “Ah” said the flowers “we freeze we freeze” “Ah” said the grasses “we die we die” Said little Jack Frost “good bye, good bye”
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#Gothicadvent 'The Mysterious White Hand' Never refuse the hand of spectral visitation, it probably just wants to pull a Christmas Cracker........
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4/4 Not all associations are positive. One superstition says robins are omens of impending death or illness & if a robin taps on your window it signals misfortune. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3415... #FolkloreSunday #art #vintage #homedecor #folklore #Christmas #greetingcards #gothicadvent
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'Crookery Hall' by the immensely talented Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) The house is so haunted even the ghosts are fleeing. #Gothicadvent
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Lussi Night in Scandinavian folklore is when an evil spirit version of St Lucy leads the Wild Hunt of ghouls, causing havoc as they sweep through villages.
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2/2 She drove me to her parlor
Above her winding stair.
To educate young spiders
She took me all apart.
My ghost came back to haunt her.
I saw her eat my heart.
—Vachel Lindsay
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“But when the bare and wintry woods we see,
What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?”
(Robert Southey)
🎨 Andy Kehoe
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Victorian Christmas card, A Happy Christmas! Illustration of a polar bear in Arctic scene of snow and icebergs, he has a man in his paws and is about to eat him.
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Angels over the Coliseum, sadly arriving a little too late.....Magic Lantern slide, 1900. #GothicAdvent
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Victorian Christmas card: May Christmas be merry Landscape with stag beetle dancing with a fog, a fly stands in the background holding something in the air, not sure what it is, in the distance the sky is filled with dragonflies/
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In Greek winter folklore the Kallikantzoroi are goblins who live underground trying to saw through the world tree that holds up the Earth but Christmas call them above ground allowing the tree to heal
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2/5 "Deep in the grip of the midwinter cold
The stars glitter and sparkle.
All are asleep on this lonely farm,
Deep in the winter night." redbubble.com/shop/ap/1637... #LegendaryWednesday #Christmas #folklore #greetingcards #WinterSolstice #Yule #poetry #WyrdWednesday #gothicadvent #bookchatweekly
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1/5 Viktor Rydberg was a Swedish writer known for a poem about a Tomte visiting a farm on #Christmas night. He makes his rounds, checking the family & livestock, while considering the passage of time. redbubble.com/shop/ap/1560... #LegendaryWednesday #gothicadvent #art #illustration #bookchatweekly
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TAXONOMY OF ANGELS For those who have ever wondered how angels are classified #GothicAdvent
The Nine Choirs of Angels:
First order: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones
Second order: Dominions, Powers, Virtues
Third order: Principalities, Archangels, Angels
Images: Jules Bastien Lepage & William Blake
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2/2 Christian #folklore associates holly with Christ's crucifixion. The spikes for his crown, green for his life, red for his shed blood redbubble.com/shop/ap/1537... #FairytaleTuesday #illustration #art #greetingcards #WinterSolstice #Yule #Christmas2025 #gifts #Gothicadvent
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1/2 Holly is associated with protection. During the #Christmas season, holly boughs were brought inside to protect against #fairies & evil spirits. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3431... #FairytaleTuesday #illustration #art #greetingcards #wintersolstice #folklore #Gothicadvent #giftideas
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