Vintage Halloween Witch Die-Cut Greeting Card, Early 1900s

An enormous glowing orange crescent moon functions as an inexplicably oversized halo behind the witch's head — proportions that suggest either astronomical disaster or profound ignorance of basic celestial mechanics. Everything else about the composition is exactly what you'd expect: a woman in a red dress and flowing green cape clutches a broomstick while a hissing black cat performs moral support from below, all shadowed by a collection of disembodied demon and goblin faces leering with the energy of a Victorian fever dream that someone decided was appropriate for mailing to their aunt. Her expression reads as vaguely inconvenienced — the face of a woman who wanted to be a celebrated Gibson Girl but somehow ended up the centerpiece of a Halloween card haunted by approximately seven background gremlins. The word 'Halloween' is scrawled at the bottom in cursive, as if anyone needed confirmation that this is not, in fact, a normal Tuesday.