Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Witch & Black Cat | Early 1900s

Floating above the embossed heart-shaped scene like a tiny furry god is a black cat face with wings, because apparently this era believed cherubs were optional and cat demons were not. Below this presides the most chaotic Halloween dinner party ever thrown: a witch in an orange dress commanding a bubbling cauldron labeled 'GOOD LUCK' while an absolutely unhinged guest list looks on — a fairy, a grinning moon-faced figure in a striped shirt, a literal horse head in a red jacket, a pointy-hatted gnome, and a jester who is laughing way too hard at whatever dark magic is being brewed. A second, fully-bodied black cat stands sentinel at the bottom, judging everyone with appropriate contempt, while a carved jack-o-lantern glows nearby and a clown-hatted child peeks in from the lower left as if even he knows he wasn't invited. The poem at the bottom cheerfully insists this is 'the best Good Luck ever seen,' which is exactly what someone would write after successfully completing a summoning ritual.