Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Girl & Black Cat

The verse cheerfully instructs you to carry a black cat in a pumpkin shell and balance an owl on your shoulder to break witches' and goblins' spells and prevent your sweetheart's love from mouldering — yet the image shows a girl in a green jacket and striped stockings with the vacant thousand-yard stare of someone who has fully accepted her fate as a supernatural errand-runner, the owl actually perched on her LEFT shoulder despite what the text claims, all of this contained within a giant spade-shaped border because nothing says 'romantic good luck' like a card suit associated with death. The owl-face logo at the top watches over everything like a corporate mascot from hell, and the spade frame looming over this cheerful scene of occult animal husbandry is doing a LOT of unintentional work to make the whole thing feel like less of a romantic blessing and more of a grim supernatural obligation.