Vintage Halloween Greetings Card with Witch & Magic Book

There's an industrious energy radiating from this hunched-over witch, multitasking with her bubbling cauldron and open magic book — cooking something unspeakable AND doing her homework, which is honestly more productive than most of us manage on Halloween. A bat lurks in the orange-and-black decorative border alongside some bare branches, because apparently the best way to convey a 'friendly wish' is through a grimacing crone stirring what is almost certainly not soup. The poem cheerfully insists this is all very wholesome and lucky for you, but the witch's hooked nose, gnarled posture, and general 'I have been planning this for decades' energy suggests the luck she's brewing is strictly the cursed variety. The tiny jack-o'-lantern tucked in the corner is doing its absolute best to lighten the mood, bless its little carved heart.