Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Tea Cup Fortune Telling 1910s

The card proclaims 'A Happy Future I Hope You Will See, On Halloween in a Cup of Tea,' cheerfully promoting what amounts to Halloween tea-leaf divination as a wholesome after-school activity — except here it's a small girl in a yellow polka-dot dress and green plaid cape doing the ritual at a little shelf-cabinet, completely unbothered by the cherubic baby figure hovering behind her waving a tiny star wand, a detail the card presents as totally normal and not at all the setup for a Victorian-era horror film. The glowing jack-o'-lantern lurking in the upper right corner watches the whole thing unfold with the serene judgment of someone who has seen too much, turning the entire scene into the opening of a folk horror anthology rather than innocent seasonal fun.