Vintage Halloween Lantern Greeting Card - Early 1900s Witch

Like a social media influencer posing with a prop, this witch isn't riding the black cat — she's simply posing beside it, one leg kicked up like she's auditioning for a Halloween-themed Rockettes number while cradling a grinning jack-o-lantern with the tenderness of a new mother. The massive moon face looming behind her has the smug, leering energy of a middle manager who just watched you take the last donut. The text at the bottom, titled 'The Hallowe'en Lantern,' instructs you to 'hold your pumpkin good and steady' at midnight so the candle rays can brighten All Hallows' Eve — advice delivered with the cheerful authority of someone who absolutely hexed your crops. The whole composition radiates the confidence of an era that looked at a woman, a sentient moon, a black cat, and a decapitated gourd and thought: yes, this is wholesome enough for the mail.