MEMENTO MORI CLOCKS from Nosferatu 1922 and the British Library Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition 2014. Have a Gothtastic 2026 everyone!! #GothicYuletide
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SNOWY GRAVEYARD WALK
Snow is falling faintly on all the living and the dead. Yorkshire UK #GothicYuletide
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Victorian Christmas card with subject possibly taken from Italian folklore story of La Befana, who is a friendly witch who delivers gifts to children on 5th January. Or maybe its just two stereotypical witches depictions of women on pointy hats riding broomsticks in the air
Bats and their winged cherub type jockeys to wish a bright new year.
Day 12 of #12DaysOfChristmas #ArchiveChristmasCard with a #GothicYuletide spin.
Hope everyone had a #MerryChristmas and are now safely travelling home, although maybe not flying on a broomstick or a bat!
#CreepyChristmas
#DarkChristmas
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Soles and upskirt?? 😏🩶🎄 #gothmas #upskirt #pantyshot #nylonsoles #pantyhosekink #nylonfetish #nylonslut #footfetish #feet #nylonfeet #pantyhosesoles #gothicgirls #gothicyuletide
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL 1915 edition with remarkable image of a cloven footed & devilish #Ghost of Christmas Future by the genius illustrator Arthur Rackham. A taste of English gothic from #Dickens & #Rackham for #GothicYuletide
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A terrifying Christmas pudding upsetting your sleep. This image was not actually a postcard at first, but from a magazine illustration.
Victorian card warning fair girls not to eat unhealthy foods or to excess over the festive season
Day 11 of #12DaysOfChristmas #ArchiveChristmasCard with a #GothicYuletide spin.
Today is #ChristmasPudding so enjoy these warnings about overeating. Victorians knew how to spoil all the fun with some well chosen criticism & body shaming..
#CreepyChristmas
#DarkChristmas
#Christmas2025
#ChristmasEve
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An unhappy looking decapitated snowman head on a platter complete with the method of his destruction
I wanted to post this too, although it is an image circulating that pretends to be an original Victorian #ArchiveChristmasCard but is edited. The original shows the children carrying a treat, but in this version, it has been replaced with a decapitated #snowman
#12DaysOfChristmas
#GothicYuletide
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A group of scared looking children with a melting snowman, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons
A Robin looking upon a sinister depiction of a snowman holding sprigs of seasonal holly and mistletoe
This weird vintage Christmas postcard features a woman appearing from inside a large snowman as a black bird looks on. No idea what the symbolism is behind this imagery other than to slightly unsettle the viewer..
A sad melting snowman is holding an umbrella in this Victorian christmas postcard
Day 10 of #12DaysOfChristmas posts showing #ArchiveChristmasCard s with a #GothicYuletide twist.
Today's theme is #snowman so enjoy this #CreepyChristmas offering!
#DarkChristmas
#Christmas2025
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Clowning around on the ice isn't safe.. Warning of danger at Christmas showing a clown ice skating while another has fallen through the ice
Christmas postacrd showing a clown eating a seasonal dish which looks very much like an advertisement for a drink reused as a greetings card
Day 9 of #12DaysOfChristmas posts with a #GothicYuletide twist.
Today's theme is #clown although not a usual seasonal symbol here, they are in Spain, to bring joy to the darkness of winter. Which might take a bit of getting used to for me!
#CreepyChristmas
#DarkChristmas
#ArchiveChristmasCard
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St Nicholas would send the Devil and his demons to watch children to see if they were naughty or nice... could today's elf on the shelf be the present-day incarnation of a 19th c demon? Remember that when they are up to mischief in your house at night!
If a child was naughty, he would be kidnapped and punished by St Nicholas and his minions: the devil and demons. What was really in those sacks on the back of his sleigh?..
Day 7 and 8 of my #12DaysOfChristmas posts with a #GothicYuletide twist since I started a day late and can't count!
Did you know #Santa / St Nicholas wasn't always a benevolent friend to children? Read more in 'alt'..
#CreepyChristmas
#DarkChristmas
#ArchiveChristmasCard
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
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PUSS IN BOOTS Renowned animal trickster. Folklorists classify him as 'the cat as helper' & he may appear in your Christmas panto. A cat cavalier, he appeared in French in Perrault, & was popularised in English in Mother Goose, 1780 #GothicYuletide 🎨Gustave Doré
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Louis Wain series of Christmas postcards showing nursery rhyme little Jack Horner as a fully dressed cat with a plum pie
Louis Wain designed Christmas card depicting a feline giant and Jack mouse from the Jack and the beanstalk story
Revenge is sweet and cat flavoured. A Christmas feast for a group of dapper mice
There was a tradition of surveillance and threat of violence in Christmas cards to warn children of the consequences of being naughty. Design by Louis Wain.
Since its the last #Caturday before Christmas, here are some terrifying examples of bizarre Victorian feline themed Christmas cards for day 6 of #12DaysOfChristmas with a #GothicYuletide twist.
More info via 'alt'. Enjoy!
#CreepyChristmas
#DarkChristmas
#ArchiveChristmasCard
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
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Four anthropomorphic vegetable Christmas or trade cards, some created by London publisher Herman Rothe in the 1870s - 90s with seasonal good wishes
Anthropomorphic vegetable Christmas or trade card likely created by London publisher Herman Rothe in the 1870s - 90s
Some rather surreal and disturbing looking anthropomorphic vegetable Victorian Christmas cards for day 5 of #12DaysOfChristmas with a #GothicYuletide twist.
Peckish anyone..?
#CreepyChristmas
#DarkChristmas
#ArchiveChristmasCard
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
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The "headless humpty" vintage Victorian Christmas postcard featuring limbs hatching from an egg, and holding an envelope. The message reads "With many merry Christmas Greetings".
Day 4 of #12DaysOfChristmas with a #GothicYuletide twist. Another strange #Victorian Christmas card, or should it be Easter? Headless egg with arms and legs, but missing a sock.. so many questions.
#CreepyChristmas
#DarkChristmas
#ArchiveChristmasCard
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
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Victorian Christmas card featuring a stag beetle dancing with a frog, with a fly holding a tambourine and dragonflies in the background with the message "may Christmas be merry" Because why not..
Day 3 of my #12DaysOfChristmas posts with a #GothicYuletide twist. This bonkers #Archive #Victorian Christmas card shows a stag beetle dancing with a frog, because surely nothing says Christmas more than that!
#CreepyChristmas
#DarkChristmas
#ArchiveChristmasCard
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
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Bizarre Victorian Christmas card showing a highwayman bird 'robin' the mail on his trusty steed... Badum tish
Day 2 of my #12DaysOfChristmas posts with a #GothicYuletide twist. This Victorian Christmas card shows a bird 'robin' the mail. See what they did there..? 😆
#CreepyChristmas
#DarkChristmas
#ArchiveChristmasCard
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
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BEFANA - THE GOOD CHRISTMAS WITCH
Delivers gifts down the chimney to Italian children on Epiphany Eve, in a similar way to St Nicholas or Santa Claus. Effigies of her made of rags are hung up & placed in windows by women & children on Twelfth Night #GothicYuletide
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Sleigh hearse trimmed with high plumes makes it way through a snowy street while a small group of people watch.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead A sleigh hearse trimmed with tall plumes makes its way through a snowy street, c. 1900
collections.mnbaq.org/fr/oeuvre/60... #GothicYuletide
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SCHNABELPERCHTEN Austrian Folklore figures with long beaks, equipped with a basket on their backs, large scissors, needle & thread & a broom. The Schnabelperchten make their way through town on the 5th of January, on the eve of Epiphany #GothicYuletide
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I'd like to jingle your balls 😉🩶🎄 #gothmas #footfetish #slayin #nylonsoles #pantyhosekink #scrunchedfeet #goth #GothicYuletide #nylonfetish #footkink
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3/5 "The pale white moon is a wanderer,
snow gleams white on pine and fir,
snow gleams white on the roofs.
Only tomten is awake." redbubble.com/shop/ap/1560... #LegendaryWednesday #art #folklore #greetingcards #WinterSolstice #Yule #poetry #poem #GothicYuletide #WyrdWednesday #bookchatweekly
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CHRISTMAS DEMONS There are Greek demons which are confined to the underworld, emerging for 12 days only over the Christmas season from 25th Dec to 7th Jan. This magnificent image shows a striking demon in just this state of limbo awaiting his chance! #GothicYuletide 🎨Bartolomé Bermejo (1440 – 1501
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art by Karl Janslin (1880)
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RED SANTA Coca-Cola popularised Red Santa in advertising in 1933; his red image is found earlier too in the 1870s in cartoons by Thomas Nast
🎨1873 Harper’s Bazar Christmas engraving hand coloured by Thomas Nast
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GREEN FATHER CHRISTMAS Victorian Christmas cards in Europe show a green Father Christmas figure with Fir Cones, Spruce & Holly. Should he be green again? #GothicYuletide #GothicAdvent
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JACK FROST wonderfully re-imagined by Arthur Rackham in the Allies' Fairy Book 1916 #GothicAdvent #GothicYuletide
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WINTER WILD MAN
The winter wild man explores animal/human boundaries & testifies to humanity's need for myth. Recorded here in Croatia and Ireland in images by Charles Fréger - he's a lively & unusual part of #GothicYuletide
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1/4 Gryla is an Icelandic giantess that gathers misbehaving children to eat. She has 13 sons known as the #Yule lads, or #Christmas trolls.
🎨John Bauer redbubble.com/people/forgo... #art #fairytale #FolkloreSunday #giftideas #illustration #folklore #gifts #GothicYuletide #Christmas2025
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9/9 Female Krampus greetings redbubble.com/people/forgo... #greetingcards #folklore #GothicYuletide #mythology #Christmas #Krampusnacht #Krampus #giftideas #FolkloreSunday #Yule
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8/9 Puppet Master Krampus Victorian #Greetingcards redbubble.com/shop/ap/3471... #SmallBusinessWeek #folklore #GothicYuletide #mythology #Christmas2025 #Krampusnacht #Krampus #FolkloreSunday #Yule
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