More Weird Things The Victorians Did For Fun
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- In the Victorian era people had a lot less to occupy their time. That meant that in a lot of cases they had to get creative. In this video we will explore four instances of weird things that people in the 1800s did for fun.
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Drop a like or a comment if you know what the postcard at 7:10 inspired ;)
Still trying to figure it out, Historidame… please, do tell!!
@@BSG0005 It inspired the pilot episode for Over The Garden Wall. czcams.com/video/X-0vZeaIrFg/video.htmlsi=5N9i8VzqyKzYonoT
It’s such a cool card !! I would love to find a reproduction of it! Thanks for an amazing video !
Having a cemetery picnic or going to a taxidermy exhibit seems absolutely tame compared to a mummy unwrapping party.
Imagine being a fly on the wall for all parties and interactions back then. That’d be so cool
I enthusiastically support a revival of the cemetery picnic! 🪦 🧺
In my hometown ( a small town in Germany) we had a old cemetery that did no longer allow new graves being added and the youngest was from around 1890s so we often went there after school to chill and drink a coffee. It was lovely and very peaceful 💜
We used to hang out at Moravian Cemetery as kids and climbed all over Vanderbilts Tomb.
Probably didn’t have as many groomed parks as we do now. Perhaps …
In the Philippines, we still hold picnics at graveyards. It’s common on birth or death anniversaries, and everyone does it at Allhallowtide to clean the graves and sweep tombs. Some spend just the day, or all three days to do as the Victorians did: bond with living family and honour the dead. A happy occasion nationwide, but also a travel-heavy holiday.
Sounds fun!
@@Historidame It is, look for news reports on Allhallowtide here! Always a carnival atmosphere in large graveyards nationwide, and it can be a noisy occasion. And the stacked tombs of the Victorian Era sound like those we still have today as families pile the relatives one on each other with limited space.
Yes, as they do in Mexico during Dia de los Muertos. People bring their deceased loved ones' favorite dishes. I am certain other countries also do similar tributes.
@@rmn3186 Actually, we did have Chinese-influenced offerings to the dead in some places where Chinese traders settled and interacted with our ancestors. When we were ruled indirectly via Mexico (Virreinato de Nueva España), we imported cuisine and folkways including those surrounding Día de Muertos (including the term for ghost, "multó", and the name of the day in Tagalog is a direct calque of the Spanish: "Araw ng mga Patáy"). We do have a direct Mexican influence on the practises surrounding that holiday. Nowadays, we do offer favourite foods even on death anniversaries in front of the photos of the dead.
fun to bump another pinoy viewer here!
Making jewelry from the hair of deceased family members was another weird Victorian hobby. It ranks up there with funerary photography.
We still send weird postcards, they're just memes now.
"Freak shows" could be used to show & prove ideas. 1 near the end of the Victorian era, had a show that saved 1000s of babies. During that time there weren't neonatal units, & Drs didn't see the need in prolonging premature babies lives. Incubators weren't new, but were expensive, & unknown by most. 1 man in the US, showed preemies in incubators, cared for by nurses. Visitors would come back repeatedly, & that money paid for equipment, costs, & nursing care till the babies went home w/their families. Some of his practices were used, or influenced care when the neonatal units opened decades later.
I never understood the cemetery picnics until i visited London and there's nice sitting areas and cool older grave markers. It was also quiet and had lots of trees and plants! Very unlike the more uniform and austere ones we have in the US
Yeah European cemeteries, and some of the older ones here in Canada can actually be very nice. I like to go for walks in them when I can-- and they're a great place to learn about local history!
There are some really cool cemeteries all over the south. I love hanging out in cemeteries.
@@susanfudge1737 I've been to the ones in New Orleans but haven't been out that way to check more out. Definitely should look in to it!
OMG. The thumbnail pic you used for this video looks like they were recreating the dance from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video. I kind of think if the Victorian's had known about that, they would do it though. Probably at the cemetery even! The taxidermy kind of creeps me out. Especially with the baby animals because no way an entire litter or more of kittens died a natural death. Even if the "artist" didn't off them himself, someone likely did and that's all I can think about looking at those displays. That said, this video was very informative and fun and I enjoyed it immensely. TY!
Thank you! And yeah, I saw the thumbnail picture and was like I HAVE to use that.
@@Historidame 😂😂😂😂EXCELLENT CHOICE!!! The thumbnail sets the perfect tone for the topic!!
I was thinking the same thing! The song started going on in my head 😂
Na, I work in cat rescue and I've seen whole litters die. It's not that uncommon 😕
Gotta love how unintentionally creepy victorians could be
Just think -- in 150 years, people will be saying the same thing about us!
6:57 that’s the Krampus. My Hungarian father in law used to warn of the Krampus if children were naughty
Oh yes, my mom is Swiss and someone would dress as Krampus and threaten the village children where she grew up.
@@Historidame wtf?! People are so crazy 😂
Very interesting :=). A picnic in a cemetery actually sounds kind of fun (of course I've always been a bit weird so that might just be me) and the "thriller" pose! As soon as I saw that I heard the chorus in my head :=). As for the taxidermy, like someone pointed out in the comments they look cute and interesting, but there's no way that all of those animals died a natural death :=(
Getting a Halloween card sounds fun why don't we do that anymore? Where's my annual Halloween card darn it?! :=)
Very informative and fun video keep it up :=)
Thank you! I'd totally do the cemetery picnic tbh.
@@Historidame You're very welcome :=) and yep, cemetery picnic for me too :=). Keep it up :=)
Done picnicking in a cemetery on a couple of Memorial Days.
My nearest bit of green space is a cemetary. I spend time there every day and, yes, I often have a "picnic" (eat my lunch sandwich on a cemetary bench) there. It's quiet, convenient, beautified with mature trees and bedding schemes, full of wildlife and ten minutes on foot from my house. What's not to like?
The kittens were horrifying! The gentleman may have used "predeceased" animals, but when you consider that spaying of cats didn't exist at this time, many litters of kittens were drowned sometime after their birth. Chances are all those kittens did not die of natural causes.😢
I love cemeteries. They are so beautiful! I’d love to picnic at one!
Taxidermy is mostly horrifying today, but when there was no tv, and less books, and less leisure time for a larger portion of the population, taxidermy probably was thrilling and humorous and wondrous. I don't imagine everyone didn't feel sorry for the dead animals, but I imagine the excitement and spectacle overtook many who may have otherwise had that inclination.
Your choice of topics is always interesting. How long do you spend researching, and how do you pick your subject matter? Thank you for posting.
Thank you! My research time really depends on the topic. I try my best to find books when I can but they are not always easy to come by. Usually it takes 3 days to a week but I don't actually keep track lol. As for video ideas, I just think of them or family and friends suggest them. Then I put them on my ideas list and pick one based on the vibes I feel at that particular moment. I'm always looking for more topic ideas if you have them though :)
Picnicking at a cemetery is just flaunting your life
😂😂😂
Krampus is not Satan Santa 😂😂
I wonder if WWI also contributed to the decline of cemeteries as leisure areas and the rise of the sense that it would be disrespectful to do so.
I have an old post card from the 20's. Whoever wrote it mentioned doing the Charleston on a beach!
The taxidermy makes me genuinely sick to my stomach, because as others have said there's no way animal cruelty wasn't involved in them. I can't begin to fathom the kind of person who would find it perfectly acceptable to kill animals just for 'haha look it's holding a teacup!' or to find it amusing. Absolutely sickening.
Yeah, I noticed decades ago how creepy some Victorian Christmas cards were. The words were "Merry Christmas to you" and the picture was a bull sitting at table eating roast beef. - Weird!
I have lunch in the cemetery around twice a week. There’s a really nice shady area near my Dad, Godmother and grandparents graves and I work near the cemetery. So I take my lunch over and sit under the tree and have lunch with them. I read and eat my food and just hang out there on my lunch break. It’s quiet and no one bothers me. It was my fathers birthday a few days ago to. So I took a cupcake and put a candle in it and sang to him and ate the cupcake while I talked to him. We all grieve in our own way. And I think having a little lunch in a cemetery is peaceful. My town has some parks but they’re all near loud roadways and they’re not as calm.
When I was in Denmark I often saw people hanging out in graveyards...kinda just using them like you would a park. Interestingly, haven't seen it in Sweden.
"Here kitty kitty!..."
"Oh... nevermind."
So basically, people have been sending each other memes and sh*tposts for the past 200 years even before the internet.
My Mexican people continue the tradition to picnic with the dead.
That’s Krampus, not Santa.
4:37 I swear he looks taxidermied in that portrait. Maybe he posed that way as a joke.
The best part of this video is your adorable desire to partake in these activities 😝 I do like the taxidermy!
If I wasn't worried about getting angry looks, I would totally picnic in a cemetery. I actually visit them sometimes to go for walks. They can hold so much history :)
@@Historidame I like doing photography in cemeteries, especially old ones
Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana was designed based on the Victorian model. There are 20+ miles of quiet, well maintained paved roads inside the ‘park’ and the administration ENCOURAGES runners and cyclists to use them so long as they avoid areas actively being used for funerals and/or mourners. They even used to hold a fall “bike rodeo” for kids. I’ve spent many hours there on my bike, and it wasn’t creepy at all.
If you think the Victorians were weird, you should look into modern people.
I absolutely love ur videos and topics, keep up the fantastic work ❤
Thank you so much!
Don't forget watching houses burn down or unwrapping Egyptian mummies. Those were popular pastimes as well!
I actually cover mummy unwrappings in part 1 of this series. Though I've never heard of watching houses burn down-- sounds interesting!
@@Historidame it passed the time
I love your videos! I only wish I had more to binge 😊
Love your videos !!
Thank you!
Love the anti-valentines cards!
i colect postcards
Cool! I've always wanted to collect vintage ones but never know where to find them :/
@@Historidametry antique shops.
Victorian era was also the colonial era. Cemetery picnics were probably influenced from Mexico's Day of the Dead. Louise Wain and his kitten paintings were also from this time so that's a fit.
Anti-Valantine's Day cards. We need to bring those back.
The taxidermy stuff is really not that different from cat videos today.
Most of Potter’s taxidermy displays were very cute
Rural cemeteries of England was the inspiration for Park cemeteries in the United States. There is a old Park cemetery in Toledo Ohio, in their history mentioned picnics and carriage races in the cemetery. I believe the cemetery is over 400 acres, one of the best examples of Park Cemetery. 🇺🇸
I can almost picture a Neanderthal carving rude runes on rocks then hurling them in the general direction of the recipient before scurrying away.
Omg you could troll people with anti Valentine’s Day cards?? 😂😂😂😂💔💔💔personally I would love to get any sort of creepy macabre cool Victorian card!! The weirder the better !!
Oh same, I love them.
This video is great fun! She did a lot of research.
I'm glad you liked it! :)
A new Historidame video??? Hell yes!!
i dont think its weird having a picnic in a cemetery at all.
Picnicking in cemeteries is still a thing.
The cover of this video be me on the last day of school.
I found a book on games that could be played at parties long ago. One of them was that you would bring a large wooden plank into the house, then give the women hammers and nails and challenge them to pound the nails into the wood. The book promised much hilarity would ensue.
What about The Whist Clubs? People would get together, and "dress" as a playing card.
That's just cosplay. Who is your favorite card character? Mine is eight.
freak shows should make a comeback, and they already have, they're just on the internet
The un-valentine is the strangest thing?!
Mummy parties
cemetary picnics, cool, places in South America and Latin cultures party in grave yards, i like it, a way to remember the dead.
They did the thiller....??
Okay so now I have to look up some original imagery print out some of those f*** you cards and send them to people. LOL I've already made a whole list
We had to mow the family plot
Once a week. It took all day. We
Ate while we were there
Click bait warning. Where is the thumbnail story?
There are a lot of worst things present day people do! A lot worse!
I'm more comfortable with freak shows than taxidermy. Taxidermy can be cool art but it tends to have negative ecological impacts. Which inevitably outweighs any social concerns. Otherwise, ha! People!!
Does anyone know if the narrator a real person or AI? It’s so tough to tell with these types of channels anymore🤦🏻♀️
I PROMISE you I am a real person, and I do every part of the video making process myself. If you listen closely you can hear the mistakes I make in my audio mixing like inhales and wet noises that I can't seem to get rid of.
@@Historidame Thank you for the reply and for creating this cool content! I’m all for mistakes and imperfections. The AI takeover depresses me.
@@alisonek Oh it really makes me upset. It's especially prominent in the history niche on CZcams. I've even had an AI channel steal the script from one of my videos and generate its own video around it.
Why the fuck was they doing thriller mixed matrix mixed together
Seriously, do not ever unnecessarily hang out at a cemetery. And if you have been to one, cleanse yourself and reclaim your sovereign sacred space before you leave there. There are restless and unpleasant spirits who may attach themselves to you and follow you home and even stay with you for a long time. If you are scoffing at what I have warned you, you are naive about energy and spirits. Good luck.
Wow
Scoff, scoff.
The weird postcards are Edwardian, not Victorian. Good, though.
"Cemetery." No "a" in the word.
cinderella
So they low-key made furry display in the 18th century
Those were some serious creeps and not normal. This would is not normal and those people are highly suspicious
No need to pay for a freak show... Any woke will do
The kittens displays were disturbing. The taxidermists were like the Dr. Knox (Burke & Haire) of their day, except with cats. I say this b/c I doubt all of the kittens died naturally. ;)
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people still use the internet for freak show like material, morbid curiousity