Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Witch & Ghost - Early 1900s

A smiling, salmon-colored ghost doing aggressive jazz hands over a witch's cauldron while she kneels in her full green coat and pointy hat ensemble, actively stirring what might be soup with a small fire burning beneath it — the specter's unbothered enthusiasm suggests it's been summoned so many times it's stopped caring, essentially looming like an unshakeable coworker who won't leave. The witch remains completely unfazed by her aggressive haunting, which delivers less 'spooky supernatural encounter' and more 'woman cooking while being relentlessly pestered.' The poem beneath — cheerfully rhyming 'owls' with 'howls' and promising witches wandering 'forth at will' — tries for festive but lands squarely on the energy of someone enduring an unwanted haunting with resignation, which, honestly, tracks. Signed by 'E. Deam,' because even in 1910 artists wanted credit for capturing their most unhinged visions on cardstock.