Tuck Halloween Postcard 'If You Can See....'

This postcard exemplifies early 20th-century Halloween imagery, where the holiday was transitioning from ancient harvest traditions to a more formalized celebration in Western culture. The scene, featuring a girl observing a witch's face in a candle flame, reflects popular divination games and superstitions associated with Halloween, believed to reveal the future or supernatural elements. Early Halloween postcards often blended whimsical depictions of witches and bats with children in festive settings, contributing to the holiday's increasingly family-friendly appeal.