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Lasting Christmas Traditions of the Victorian Period

When you look up Victorian traditions, you come across some pretty bizarre practices. Making hair accessories, jewelry, and home décor from human hair. The display of death masks made from plaster casts. In-home, multi-day corpse viewings by friends and family. Public executions as spectator sport. Seances as social events. Dentures made from the teeth of […]