Victorian Santa Claus Christmas Card with Reindeer & Cottage

There's something unsettlingly reverent about the scene—a medieval plague doctor energy radiates off this Santa, who has ditched the sleigh entirely and opted for a wooden walking stick, apparently having fully committed to a pilgrimage aesthetic. The small deer beside him gazes up with the hollow-eyed devotion of someone who has just realized they are standing next to an ancient and unknowable forest deity, while a lone snow-dusted cabin glows warmly in the background—presumably full of people who have no idea a cloaked stranger and his woodland familiar are lurking outside. The sack slung over his shoulder suggests gifts, but given the vaguely mystical energy radiating off this man, it could just as easily contain souls.