Vintage Halloween Greeting Card Early 1900s Witch Pumpkin

There's something unsettlingly reassuring about this early 20th-century emotional manipulation, wherein a crescent moon wearing a smug grin, a wide-eyed owl, multiple bats, a ghost doing its best 'talk to the hand' impression, a witch actively fleeing the scene on a broomstick, and a jack-o-lantern perched atop a separate broomstick like a very seasonal trophy have all been conscripted into delivering what is essentially a restraining order written in verse. The poem—rendered in that delightfully unhinged decorative font that screams 'I learned calligraphy from a warlock'—assures the recipient that all these goblins, elves, spooks, owls, ghosts, and cats exist solely to ensure 'no harm comes to you,' which is exactly what someone would say if they were, in fact, sending harm. The black cat perched atop what appears to be a pole over the crescent moon has the energy of middle management watching you clock in late, and the whole composition reads less like a Halloween greeting and more like a legally binding supernatural protection contract you never agreed to sign.