Lots of older cards show witches riding their broomsticks “backwards.” In other words, the bristles are on the front end, rather than trailing out the
Category: Halloween
Burn Your Nuts! It’s Halloween!
If you set your nuts on fire, you’ll know if s/he will love you forever. Or I guess technically, the idea is that if you
Setting Halloween Fortunes on Fire?
What’s going on here? No, really. What’s happening in this card? Even if we spell it out, I don’t understand. We’ve got a little girl
Rats, Cats, and Pumpkin-Carriages
As your personal curator (hate that word) of vintage weirdness, I take my role as a historian of holiday deltiological iconography very seriously. So when
Podcast! Christmas Werewolves with Benito Cereno
Christmas werewolves are a thing. I mean, I don’t know if they’re REAL real. But people really used to believe they were a thing. So
Podcast: Halloween Postcards with Eric Hinton
The first podcast episode of the 2020 {shiver} season. We do a bit of deep diving into the world of Halloween postcard collecting which, if
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