Vintage Halloween Greeting Card: Little Witch with Black Cat

The decision to depict a toddler in a spotted nightgown and droopy socks as the star of this Halloween scene remains baffling—hunched over a roaring cauldron on wheels like a pint-sized middle manager who absolutely cannot delegate, her oversized witch hat threatening to swallow her entire head while a red cape billows behind her with deeply unearned drama. The black cat—grounded, broom between its paws, judging everyone—is the only sane entity in this tableau, surrounded as it is by two bats, a lurking full moon, and a child who has been left entirely unsupervised near open flames. 'May a nice little witch brew a Happy Halloween for you' reads the caption, which is doing a heroic amount of work to make institutionalized toddler pyromania feel wholesome.