Hey there, is there any possible way you know where you linked to the one that has the ‘painter and bird’ that says ‘A Merry Xmas’…?
These cards are old, and I’m curious why the X would be showing up so early - I believe it was meant to de-Christ the Mass, so to speak, even to point to an alternative ‘celebration’ for some people…
From what I’ve found out when I researched it in the past, the X was originally used to represent Christ not to de-Christ. There are examples of this going back as far as 1100 AD. in the 1800’s it was a common usage in England and shows up, for example, in Lewis Carroll’s letters.
Here’s one of the sites I ran across when I started to get fascinated by these cards
Greetings from the Edgar Allen Poe collection. Wonderfully funny and creepy.
I discovered these this past weekend and knew that my pals on substack were gonna enjoy
Yes! Great call.
Thanks for more nightmare material.
My pleasure!
Back when cocaine was legal.
Too weird!
so weird I had to share
Imagine learning that irony was not invented by SNL.
crazy talk
Gonna have nightmares for sure, it’s like the Hallmark Hieronymus Bosch collection.
If I’m feeling weird and freaked out, all my friends need to as well!
Wow, very cool!
Hey there, is there any possible way you know where you linked to the one that has the ‘painter and bird’ that says ‘A Merry Xmas’…?
These cards are old, and I’m curious why the X would be showing up so early - I believe it was meant to de-Christ the Mass, so to speak, even to point to an alternative ‘celebration’ for some people…
From what I’ve found out when I researched it in the past, the X was originally used to represent Christ not to de-Christ. There are examples of this going back as far as 1100 AD. in the 1800’s it was a common usage in England and shows up, for example, in Lewis Carroll’s letters.
Here’s one of the sites I ran across when I started to get fascinated by these cards
https://www.boredpanda.com/creepy-victorian-vintage-christmas-cards/
X is the first letter of Christ in the Greek spelling, I thought.
Is that another reason why Musk is fascinated with the letter? So much hidden in plain sight... yet maybe nothing
Right
Freaky and strange. Thanks for the laughs 😂
Seemingly evidence that the Victorians were driven mad by their own culture. Wow