Four Witches in Oz | The Hidden History of Oz Four Witches in Oz Dorothy melts the Wicked Witch of the West, by W.W. Denslow There are four witches in Oz – one in each corner, or rather, one in each Cardinal Direction. L. Frank Baum laid out the powers that ruled the corners of Oz. In his first book, he detailed this witchy phenomenon: “There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two of them, those who live in the North and the South, are good witches. I know this is true, for I am one of them myself, and cannot be mistaken. Those who dwelt in the East and the West were, indeed, wicked witches; but now that you have killed one of them, there is but one Wicked Witch in all the Land of Oz–the one who lives in the West.” — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , chapter 2, “The Council with the Munchkins” So, four Witches? Is this a Star Wars dark lord of Sith-type limitation on the number of Witches? Let’s explore this witch-rule across three different versions of Oz – canonical Oz, by L.

Frank Baum; Disney Oz, coming to theaters soon; and The Hidden History of Oz, available now. You may have seen what Disney is doing with their Oz prequel, Oz, the Great and Powerful . If not, here’s a quick peek at one of the TV spots. Which Witch is which? Disney’s Witches Official character bio for each witch: Glinda – Glinda is a good witch who rules over a peaceful kingdom of simple, kind folk. Beautiful Glinda is not only a compassionate and benevolent witch, but also a fierce protector of her people. Though Glinda sees through Oz’s facade early on, she knows genuine goodness lies within and helps Oz achieve his true destiny. Evanora – A witch to be feared, Evanora is Theodora’s over-protective sister. With her penetrating gaze, she exudes a powerful presence and has positioned herself as the royal advisor and protector of Emerald City. Theodora – Theodora is a beautiful, naive witch who is protected by her powerful sister Evanora. Theodora only wants peace to come to the Land of Oz and truly believes that a prophesied wizard will arrive someday to restore order. Then there is a silhouette of a witch in the fire.

Who could this be? We’ll have to wait until March 8, 2013, when the film is released, to find out. Baum’s Witches North The Good Witch of the North was not named in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Nor whas she named in any of Baum’s Oz books. However, Baum gave her the name of Locasta in the 1902 musical extravaganza, The Wizard of Oz. Ruth Plumly Thompson , Baum’s handpicked successor in writing Oz books, revamped the character and gave her the name of Tattypoo. The Good Witch of the North is often confused with Glinda. Why? Because the 1939 MGM movie, The Wizard of Oz, combined the two good witches into one and called her Glinda. Thanks for that. East The Wicked Witch of the East is not named in Baum’s books. West The Wicked Witch of the West is not named in Baum’s books. However, in the 1910 silent film, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, this witch is named Momba in the intertitles (or title cards). South The Good Witch of the South is Glinda the Good .

She is the most powerful of the Witches. According to the Soldier with Green Whiskers, Glinda: “knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived.” — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, chapter 18, “Away to the South” So she was the most beautiful of the four witches. Later books in Baum’s Oz series refer to Glinda as a Sorceress, rather than a Witch. Hidden History Witches This information is taken from The Hidden History of Oz, Book One: The Witch Queens. Gayelette Gayelette is the eternal sorceress who rules from the Ruby Palace in the lands of the North. She is a sorceress who exists in a different time than normal people – she does not ever age. She is more than one hundred years old. Her constant research keeps her too busy to pay attention to either matters of state or family. Gayelette researches the power of dreams, probing into the mystery, “Why does nobody in Oz dream?” Kalinya Kalinya rules over the Munchkins in the East as their unquestioned leader. She is cruel and easily irritated. Her magic is telekinetic, and her greatest threat is to throw a person into the sky.

She is clever and constantly schemes to gain more power, especially against her chief rival, Gayelette. It is Kalinya who later becomes known as the Wicked Witch of the East. Ondri-baba Ondri-baba is the homely and cruel younger sister of Kalinya. She is short and stocky, and fond of wearing ornate neckpieces. Her magic is invisibility. She has a magic eye that can see long distances; it can see what normal waking eyes cannot see. She controls the majority of the magic hourglasses sold by Smith & Tinker, and so controls the Sandy Armies. It is Ondri-baba who eventually conquers the Winkies in the West and becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. Sonadia Sonadia is only mentioned in the book. She met her untimely death under very mysterious circumstances. Through conversations with Kalinya and Glinda, we learn that Sonadia had powers over weather, and she taught some of these spells to Gayelette. Mombi Mombi is a strategist and political opportunist.

Though her powers of transformation and disguise are well-known to the leaders of the various lands in Oz, Mombi seeks out the true positions of power – those behind the throne. She is careful in her use of power, though sometimes she gets caught up in Kalinya’s schemes. Note: Mombi is not mentioned in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, though she is the primary antagonist in Baum’s second book, The Marvelous Land of Oz. Locasta Locasta is a young Munchkin maiden, taken as an apprentice by Kalinya, Witch of the East. She is quiet and non-confrontational, doing what she is told. She fears her master and the cruel punishments that she earns for her supposed ineptitude. Her most powerful magic is the ownership of an oracular hat. Though sent to capture Glinda, she learns a valuable lesson from the young sorceress and finds the courage to stand on her own merit. With Glinda building her forces in the South, Locasta becomes what Glinda cannot be – the Witch of the North. Glinda Glinda is the daughter of the Ruby Sorceress, Gayelette, and Quelala, rulers of the North.

She was born a princess, but she imagines for herself adventure and romance, just like in her large collection of books. She has fiery red hair, and a temper to match. When her parents disappear, Glinda finds herself thrown into adventure, with the Wicked Witches chasing after her. With a name and a fame belonging to her mother, Glinda fights back against the witches to earn for herself the title of Glinda the Good, and secure a new home for herself in the South. History of the Witches in Oz Baum’s version According to Baum’s later Oz books, the witches had been ruling for decades, and the three witches – East, West, and Mombi in the North – conspired to conquer the entire Land of Oz and divide it up among themselves. Hidden History version According to stories in Book One, there have been two Witch Wars. Both of these wars tore the Land of Oz apart as the Witches combined their powers and created vast armies to fight against the kings and queens of the land. In the Second Witch War, the Witches obtained an alliance and power from the Queen of Dreams, a mysterious ruler from across the sea. The Witches unwisely used this power and poisoned and destroyed the sea.

The sea became a toxic desert that surrounds the Land of Oz. Book One details the beginning of the Third Witch War, as the Wicked Witches again combine their power to overthrow the rulers of the land. While this book begins the Third Witch Wars, they do not end until later books, with the arrival of a young “sorceress” (Dorothy) to the Land of Oz. How will it end? The Witch Wars end when all the Witches are dead. We know that Dorothy interacts with all of the main witches in the original story, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. She destroys two of them, and receives magical protection and favors from the other two. However, the journey from four cardinal witches to two witches is a fascinating one explored in the Hidden History of Oz novels. If you haven’t picked up your copy yet, you can find it on Amazon (in paperback and Kindle versions) or on Smashwords . Edit: Update on the ending of the Third Witch Wars. It happens in later books, not Book Four.

– Tarl Share this: Good Witch of the North | Oz Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Good Witch of the North 2,002pages on Share "The little old woman, took off her magic white hat and balanced the point on the end of her small wrinkled nose, while she counted "ONE... TWO.... THREE", in a solemn voice. At once the white hat changed to a magic slate, on which was written in big, white chalk letters: LET DOROTHY GO TO THE CITY OF EMERALDS... " Good Witch of the North Profile Good Witch of the North/ Tattypoo /Locasta/Queen Orin Gender Gillikin Country Affiliation "Magic hat spin fast not slow, tell me what I want to know!" ―Locasta Tattypoo The Good Witch of the North. 1900. "You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins . We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East , and for setting the people free from bondage..." ― The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) Locasta Tattypoo of Oz.

Locasta Tattypoo aka the (Good Witch of the North) is a fictional character created by L. Frank Baum , author and creator of the Oz legacy. She is introduced in Baum's first Oz book titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , published in 1900. She is from the magical Land of Oz and appears in the second chapter of the novel The Council with the Munchkins. Interestingly, she is not given a name in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and is only known by her title of position. It would not be until Baum wrote the sequel Oz books when her character is finally given an actual name. Unlike the 1939 MGM musical movie The Wizard of Oz , she is the first Good Witch to originally greet a newly arrived Dorothy Gale and her little pet dog Toto to Oz, and should not be mistaken for the character of Glinda the Good, who is actually the Good Witch of the South and doesn't make an appearance until the end of the original story. The Good Witch of the North welcomes Dorothy & little Toto to the Munchkin Country of Oz. By Artist Charles Santore.

The Good Witch of the North is known as being the elderly and mild-mannered ruler of Oz's northern quadrant called Gillikin Country . In Baum's later Oz books which serve as sequels to the first story, it is also revealed that she became the official head ruler of the North after overthrowing the old Witch Mombi . "Are you a Munchkin also?", asked Dorothy. "No, but I am their good friend, although I live in the North. When they saw the Witch of the East was dead the Munchkins sent a swift messenger to me, and I came at once. I am the Witch of the North." "Oh, gracious!" cried Dorothy. "Are you a real witch?" "Yes, indeed," answered the little woman. "But I am a good Witch, and all the people love me. I am not as powerful as the Wicked Witch who ruled here was, or I should have set the people free myself long ago..." Baum's Description The Good Witch of the North by W. W. Denslow 1900. "The little woman's hat was pure white.

It rose about a foot above her head and was pointed at the tip with little jingle bells which ran all across the brim and made a faint tinkling sound as she moved. She wore a puffy white gown that hung in pleats from her shoulders. Over it were sprinkled little stars and half moons that glistened in the sun like diamonds. The little woman's face was covered with wrinkles, her eyes were the colour of violets, her short curly hair was nearly all white, and she walked rather stiffly, but had a friendly, welcoming smile. " ― The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) Locasta Tattypoo. Locasta Tattypoo is described as being short, friendly, witty, jolly, funny and fat. She is humble, optimistic, mild-mannered and extremely kind. She has an adorable sense of humor which all of the other authority figures who dwell in Oz lack. She is very respected and loved greatly, not only by her own subjects, the loyal Gillikins , but also by other Ozians such as the Munchkins . Baum presented her as an extremely sweet and positive character who stood against the oppression and subjugation of people.

Although she wasn't as powerful as the Wicked Witch of the East and was hence unable to depose her the way she deposed Mombi, the Good Witch of the North was nonetheless exceedingly sensitive to the plight of the enslaved Munchkins, who regarded her as their friend. Her personality is said to be much like Santa Claus 's wife, the smitten Ms. Claus. File:IMG 20140702 043920.jpg Physically, Locasta Tattypoo has purple eyes and short curly white hair. She always wears a clean white pointed hat that reaches a foot above her head with little silver bells that run across the brim and jingle ever so sweetly as she moves. Her hat is also a magical one and can also turn into a magic slate with magic white chalk letters she can consult for wise answers when in need of any advice. Her dress is a very long and poofy, sparkling ball gown of pure white yet sprinkled with glittering half-moons and little stars all about that glow brightly even in the sunlight. She also carries a large magic wand that has the initial "N"on the very top.

Loscasta Tattypoo can perform simple small magic and is known for being able to dissapear into thin air when she is on the heel of her left foot. After twirling around exactly three times she vanishes, and is instantly teleported away. Good Witch of the North during her council with Dorothy Gale and the Munchkins. By Michael Hague. "The Witch of the North gave Dorothy a friendly little nod, whirled around on her left heel three times, and straightway disappeared, much to the surprise of little Toto, who barked after her loudly enough when she had gone, because he had been afraid even to growl while she stood by. But Dorothy, knowing her to be a Witch, had expected her to disappear in just that way, and was not surprised in the least. " ― The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) Powers of The North The Wizard was once believed to be the greatest and most powerful figure in all of Oz for a very long time. However, despite his reign, it was still stated that Glinda , the wise and beautiful Good Witch of the South, was the most powerful of the four Witches of Oz.

Next to Glinda was clearly the Wicked Witch of the East , who owned the magical Silver Shoes . Coming in third would be the Witch of the North, given her confession that she was not as powerful as the Witch of the East. However, it was still somewhat proven that she was more powerful than the Wicked Witch of the West , for despite the latter owning the Golden Cap , she was unable to hurt a person who had been magically kissed by the former. Hence, it can be said that the Good Witch of the North ranked third in magical strength out of the four Witches of Oz, and - according to the story - last in knowledge that concerned the Silver Shoes , for the other three Witches were revealed to know how to utilise the powers of said shoes, but she did not. History of the Loscasta Tattypoo--Good Witch of the North After she freed the Gillikins from Mombi's clutches, the Good Witch of the North, was born a princess of the North, named Orin. Her father was King Gil of Gilkenny . She was courted by Prince Cheeriobed of the Ozure Isles .

She accepted, but during the preparation for the wedding, Mombi , the Wicked Witch of the North, fell in love with Cheeriobed and tried to seduce him. Her attempt failed, so Mombi later kidnapped Orin and transformed her into an old witch; this caused Orin to forget her identity and she began calling herself Tattypoo. ( The Giant Horse of Oz ) For more detail on Ruth Plumly Thompson's history for the character, see Tattypoo . The decline of Mombi's power began when she was deposed as Ruler of the Gillikins by the Good Witch of the North. ( Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ) This occurred when she came upon Mombi transforming someone into a tree; she interfered, and found her magic was stronger than Mombi's and so defeated her and took over her hut, becoming the Good Witch of the North. ( The Giant Horse of Oz ) As the new Ruler of the Gillikins, the Good Witch of the North forbade any other witch to live in the Gillikin Country, thus minimising potential future threats.

Mombi herself was compelled to be nothing more than a raggedy old Bag-Lady who knows some magic. The Good Witch of the North was summoned to the Munchkin Country when Dorothy Gale 's falling house killed the Wicked Witch of the East . She warmly welcomed Dorothy to Oz with compassion and kindness, and gave her the dead Wicked Witch's magical Silver Shoes . When Dorothy asked her how to return home again, the Good Witch consulted her magical white cap, which could be turned into a slate that provided magical advice. Dorothy was advised to follow the Yellow Brick Road and travel to the Emerald City to seek the aid of the Wizard of Oz . The Good Witch of the North couldn't accompany Dorothy on her journey, but placed a special kiss on her forehead that would protect her from evil-doers. "No one will dare injure a person who has been kissed by the Witch of the North", the Good Witch assured Dorothy, and indeed the kiss protected her from the Winged Monkeys and the Wicked Witch of the West . ( The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ) Queen Orin, restored to her true form, returns to the Ozure Isles.

The Good Witch of the North was one of the many guests who attended Princess Ozma 's birthday party. She amused the other attendees by transforming ten stones into ten birds, the ten birds into ten lambs, and the ten lambs into ten little girls, who gave a pretty dance and were then transformed back into ten stones once again. ( The Road to Oz ) After many years ruling over the Gillikins , Tattypoo was reminded by her dragon Agnes to look in the Witch's Window, which made her remember her true identity as Orin, the Queen of the Ozure Isles ; she then returned there to rule, and was made co-ruler of Munchkin Country with her husband. ( The Giant Horse of Oz ) She was later in attendance at the celebration of Ozana 's arrival in Oz. ( The Magical Mimics in Oz ) Here she is referred to only as the Good Witch of the North, and refer to a successor. Jack Snow, in his book Who's Who in Oz, indicated that "important things have transpired" regarding the Good Witch that would "take a whole book to tell," an indication that he was developing a story involving her.

Book Appearances In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz , Glinda and the Good Witch of the North are again separate characters (and the Good Witch of the North has the name Tattypoo), although they are both played by Miss Piggy (as are the Wicked Witch of the West and the Wicked Witch of the East ). From The Witches of Oz : Locasta (left) and Glinda (right) The Good Witch of the North is Locasta again in David Hardenbrook 's novel The Unknown Witches of Oz (2000). In The Wizard of Oz: Dark Witch Rising by Mike LaMontagne, the Good Witch of the North is named Lillian. She is only mentioned by name briefly in the first book, Rainbow's Emissary, but she becomes a significant player in Witch Hunt, the second book and Paradise Lost, the third book in the series. In Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return , the Good Witch of the North is Glinda. File:GWN Promohh.jpg In Barnyard Studio's Wonderful Wizard of Oz film the Good Witch of the North will be played by actress Stacey Pratt.

In the hidden History of oz series, she is called by her arguably cannonical name Locasta. Unlike other materials, where she is seen as an elderly woman, she is depicted here as a teenage girl not much older than Ginda. She is also apprentice to Kaliyana, Witch of the East, before rebeling to help Glinda. Credits Oz Characters - OzWiki Oz Characters Jump to: navigation , search [NOTE: As with the previous section, some parts of the Oz books may be given away here. If you'd prefer to meet the characters by reading their stories, you may wish to skip this section. Also, questions about characters who appear only in The Movie are answered in the section The Movie — Trivia and Miscellany .] Contents 30 Why doesn't Polychrome recognize the Shaggy Man in Tik-Tok of Oz, even though they traveled together in The Road to Oz? Who are some of the famous citizens of Oz? There are an awful lot of these, as you can imagine from a series of forty books. But here are some of the most famous and important: Dorothy Gale, formerly a Kansas farmgirl and now a princess of Oz.

She destroyed two wicked witches on her first trip to Oz, and has had many adventures since. She eventually moved to Oz for good, and has lived there ever since. Her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, dog Toto, and cat Eureka all have come to live in Oz as well. The Scarecrow. Former ruler of Oz, he is still well beloved by the citizens and a trusted advisor to Queen Ozma. He helped Dorothy on her first adventure, hoping to receive a brain. He got it, and his wisdom has been most helpful in thinking through many problems. Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodman. He was an ordinary woodchopper who, having angered the Wicked Witch of the East, accidentally chopped parts of himself off when the witch enchanted his ax. Fortunately he had a friend who was a skilled tinsmith, who was able to replace each part, until there was nothing left of Nick Chopper but tin. He joined Dorothy looking for a new heart. He is one of the kindest men in Oz, and rules the Winkie Country. The Cowardly Lion. He came with Dorothy to the Emerald City looking for courage, and the Wizard helped him acquire it.

He is loyal and brave, and often acts as a bodyguard for Ozma on state occasions. But he's the first to admit that he's still scared sometimes. The Wizard of Oz. After returning to America, the Wizard found his way back to Oz once again, where he was invited to stay and become a real wizard. He has learned much real magic from Glinda the Good, and is now one of Ozma's closest advisors. Glinda the Good. Ruler of the Quadlings, she is also a skilled sorceress, and one of the most respected citizens of Oz because of her power and knowledge. She is able to keep track of all that goes on through her Great Book of Records, where every event is written down as soon as it happens. Jack Pumpkinhead. Made to scare an old witch, she brought him to life instead, and he eventually found his way to the Emerald City. His pumpkinseeds don't seem to always work well as far as brains go, and he must carve a new head when his old one gets soft or mushy, but his simple charm makes him a favorite of all his friends. Professor H. M. Wogglebug, T. E.

Once an ordinary small wogglebug (a common Ozian insect), he learned much when he made his home between the floorboards of a schoolhouse. (He gave himself the honorary degree of T. E., for "thoroughly educated.") He was found by the schoolteacher and magically enlarged (hence his first initials, H. M., standing for "Highly Magnified"), and so he made his way to the Emerald City to become a lecturer. He is now dean of the Royal Athletic College of Oz. Ozma. The daughter of deposed king Pastoria and the rightful ruler of Oz, she was discovered and restored to her throne, where she has ruled ever since. Her subjects love and trust her, and she is good and kind to them in return. Billina, a yellow hen who accompanied Dorothy on her second trip to Oz. She was the first character from the Great Outside World since the Wizard to settle in Oz, and she has since raised several chicks, all named Dorothy or Daniel. Tik-Tok. A copper man who runs by clockwork, Dorothy met him in the land of Ev. After helping Dorothy and Ozma in an adventure there, he was invited to come to Oz, and he accepted.

Trustworthy and bright, he does have a problem with winding down at inopportune moments, and he is helpless until somebody winds him up again. The Hungry Tiger. This beast longs to eat a fat baby, but his conscience will not allow it. Like his good friend the Cowardly Lion, he also acts as Ozma's bodyguard on important occasions. (Although officially introduced in Ozma of Oz, the Hungry Tiger may have actually first appeared in an incident towards the end of The Wizard of Oz, when he meets the Cowardly Lion and his friends in a Quadling forest.) The Shaggy Man. A wanderer from America, he came to Oz with Dorothy on one of her adventures, and was invited to stay. His philosophy of life and wanderlust make him a fine friend of Oz. Button-Bright, Betsy Bobbin, and Trot. These three children have all found their way to Oz from America (the latter with her boon companion, Cap'n Bill, a one-legged sailor; and Betsy Bobbin brought her mule, Hank), and have all made homes in Oz. Scraps, the Patchwork Girl.

Made from a patchwork quilt to be the servant of a magician's wife, she proved to be too independent and saucy for domesticity, so she went off on her own instead. Her lightheartedness and silly rhymes make everyone glad to see her, but her manner can be trying at times. The Woozy. A strange animal, fond of eating honeybees, he's the only one of his kind. He is made up entirely of cubes and blocks, with a square head and rectangular body. He is also a true and loyal friend, willing to help all in need. Sir Hokus of Pokes, the Yellow Knight of Oz. Dorothy found this gentle Medieval knight in an enchanted city, and once she rescued him he proved to be brave and loyal, rendering assistance to Ozma many times. Kabumpo. Royal elephant of the court of Pumperdink, a small kingdom in the central Gillikin Country, Kabumpo has had his fair share of adventures in service to his country, and later to his friends in neighboring kingdoms and the Emerald City. His elegance and aloof demeanor do a poor job of hiding his loyalty and compassion. Jinnicky, the Red Jinn.

Living in his own castle far from Oz, on the seacoast of Ev, Jinnicky has nevertheless become involved in a number of Ozian affairs. He is a fast friend of Kabumpo, despite their good-natured bickering. Although encased in a red ginger jar, he is a powerful magician, who has even topped the Wizard on occasion. His hearty disposition causes all to meet him to become his friends. Of course there are many, many other characters, some of whom only appear in one book, some in several. To meet them, start reading! What is Dorothy's last name? Gale. Interestingly enough, Dorothy's last name isn't given in the original novel of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Her last name is first mentioned in the 1902 stage version of the story Baum wrote a few years later: "My name is Dorothy Gale. I'm one of the Kansas Gales." To which the Scarecrow replies, "Well, that explains your breezy manner." In the later Oz books, Baum kept the name (he first used it in Dorothy's second appearance, in Ozma of Oz) but mercifully spared his readers the pun.

Her last name was first seen in print in W. W. Denslow's "Scarecrow and the Tin-Man" comic strip in 1904, however. The last name was also used in The Movie, Return to Oz, and other adaptations of the story. Does Dorothy have a middle name? If she does, she's kept it a secret. I don't recall any instance of Dorothy having a middle name. However, in the 2011 television miniseries The Witches of Oz, a grown-up Dorothy does have the monogram "DEG" on her pillows. (Perhaps this Dorothy's middle name is "Emily", after Aunt Em?) Was Dorothy named or modeled after a real child? There were a number of women during Baum's lifetime, and even after he died, who claimed to be the inspiration for the heroine of The Wizard of Oz. But the Baum family always had a chuckle at these claims, and said it was just a name Frank liked. There's even some speculation that he'd hoped to have a daughter and name her Dorothy, but he and his wife Maud had only four sons. The family always claimed that Dorothy was named after no particular person.

Baum also used the name for characters in two of his other early books. The heroine of a short story in his first published book of fiction, Mother Goose in Prose, is named Dorothy, and both Dot and Dolly, characters in Dot and Tot of Merryland, are diminutives of Dorothy. Some research into the Baum family, however, turned up an interesting find. Baum's sister-in-law, Sophie Jewell Gage, gave birth to a daughter in July of 1898. Maud Baum, Frank's wife, doted on the child, but sadly, Dorothy Louise Gage died only four months later. Sally Roesch Wagner, biographer of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a noted suffragette and Baum's mother-in-law, speculates that naming his most famous character Dorothy was Frank's way of keeping the baby's memory alive. Wagner discovered Dorothy Gage's tombstone in a Bloomington, Illinois graveyard in 1996. The Baums also had another niece named Dorothy Louise Gage, who lived from 1883 to 1889, and who may have been living in Aberdeen at the time of her death.

In the 1990 television movie The Dreamer of Oz, Dorothy is depicted as Baum's seven-year-old niece, and dies in the film. While based on the real events surrounding the first Dorothy Gage, the second one, who died in infancy, was more recent when Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and was more likely the inspiration for the character's name. What happened to Dorothy's parents? How did she come to live with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry? It's never explained, in the main books or any other well-known source, who Dorothy's parents are, how they died, or how she came to live with her aunt and uncle — only that Dorothy is an orphan. The only comment in the books about them is in The Emerald City of Oz: "As for Uncle Henry, he thought his little niece merely a dreamer, as her dead mother had been…" Some unofficial books and other sources, however, have come up with some fanciful explanations. In 2015's The Wiz Live, Dorothy was originally from Omaha, and her parents died in an accident. Aunt Em, as her mother's older sister, was her closest relative. How is Dorothy related to Uncle Henry and Aunt Em?

It's never been clearly stated just which of Dorothy's parents they were related to, nor which is the blood relative. Glinda of Oz does say that Uncle Henry was "...Dorothy's own uncle," and Aunt Em is referred to as his wife, which some have taken to mean that Dorothy is most closely related to Uncle Henry, and Aunt Em married into the family (this would make sense in light of Uncle Henry's comments about Dorothy's dead mother in Emerald City, if Dorothy's mother was Henry's sister — see the previous question); but this is ambiguous enough to be interpreted in more than one way — or ignored. Also, in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Zeb, in speaking to Dorothy, refers to "your Uncle Henry's wife," again implying that Henry is the blood relative and Em married into the family. Some Ozmologists have even speculated that, based on their apparent ages, Uncle Henry and Aunt Em may be Dorothy's great uncle and great aunt. But their appearances have been an invention of the illustrators, not Baum himself. In the apocryphal novel Was, Dorothy's mother was Aunt Em's sister. She had died of malaria, and Dorothy's father had abandoned the family.

In the novels Dorothy: This Side of the Rainbow and Looking for a Rainbow, both by Vincent Begley, Dorothy is the daughter of Irish immigrants in New York City who is sent west on one of the orphan trains after her parents died. She ends up living with, and is eventually adopted by, the Gales, whom she calls Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. This is similar to what she tells the Cowardly Lion in Gregory Maguire's A Lion Among Men, but she was in a Topeka orphanage and sent to the Gales when they asked for someone to help them on the farm. In another apocryphal novel, Halloween in Oz: Dorothy Returns, Dorothy is the daughter of Thomas Gale and Sarah Hopkins Gale, who died in a fire in their home town of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Aunt Em was Sara's older sister and only remaining relative. In The Witches of Oz (2011 television miniseries), Dorothy is Uncle Henry's aunt! She was the daughter of Frank and Maud (no last name given, but that's also the names of the author of The Wizard of Oz and his wife), but was carried to Oz in a cyclone in 1899.

She stayed in Oz and never grew up, observed by her parents through a magic water globe, until she came back to farm in 1992 to protect Oz. The farm stayed in the family, and her nephew Henry and his wife Emily found her and raised her, and she forgot that her time in Oz was real. In The Wiz Live in 2015, Aunt Em was Dorothy's mother's older sister (Uncle Henry didn't appear). What kind of storm took Dorothy to Oz? Throughout the book, and most of the movie versions, it's called a cyclone. The trouble is, that's not what it was. It was actually a tornado. I'm not a meteorologist, but I understand that these are two different phenomena, although it's a common mistake. A tornado can also be called a twister, which has also been used in some movies (but not the book itself). Almost as soon as the book came out, the problem was pointed out (even the chief of the United States Weather Bureau got involved), and the original publishers made plans to correct the term in the next edition. They went bankrupt, however, the book went to another publisher, and the correction was never made.

What color are Dorothy's famous shoes in The Wizard of Oz? They are silver in the book. When writing the script for The Movie, Noel Langley originally left them that color, but because it was being filmed in Technicolor, it was decided to change them to something more colorful. Script pages even exist with "silver" crossed out and "ruby" written above it. So, the shoes became ruby. Most versions of the story now use silver, but some use ruby, not knowing that they are a Hollywood invention — and still legally protected. For Return to Oz in 1985, Disney paid MGM a fee to use the ruby slippers. In Wicked, both the book and the play, the shoes are either silver or red, depending on circumstances and how the light hits them. What is Uncle Henry and Aunt Em's last name? Nobody knows for sure. They are never given a last name in the books. In The Movie, Miss Gulch refers to Uncle Henry as "Mr. Gale," but in Return to Oz, Dr. Worley calls Aunt Em "Mrs.

Blue." Since these references come from movies, and not the books, they're considered to be apocryphal, and the question is still unanswered. Does Dorothy have any other relatives? Yes — sort of. In Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Dorothy meets up with Zeb, the closest thing she has to a living relative other than Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. Uncle Henry is visiting with Zeb's Uncle Bill, and as Zeb explains it to her, "Uncle Bill Hugson married your Uncle Henry's wife's sister; so we must be second cousins." Of course Zeb isn't really Dorothy's second cousin, he just used the term to indicate that he and Dorothy must be related somehow. Throughout the rest of the book, they just refer to each other as cousins. (It is not clear what Zeb's last name is. Although often referred to by Ozmologists as Zeb Hugson, he is not given a last name in the book itself.

And since he refers to his uncle more than once as "Uncle Hugson," it's entirely possible that Hugson is not his last name.) Also of note, in Return to Oz, Aunt Em's sister Garnet is mentioned, which would mean Garnet was also Dorothy's aunt (she's still living, so she's not Dorothy's mother). Where in Kansas did Dorothy live? It's never made clear. In the books, the only clue given is in The Road to Oz, where it is revealed that she lives near Butterfield. Only trouble is, there is no real town named Butterfield in Kansas.

(There is, however, a town named Butterfield in southwestern Missouri, not very far from the Kansas border.) Another clue Baum gave us — but not in the books — comes from some publicity material for his 1904-05 comic page, "Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz." In a letter to her old friends, Dorothy's address is given as "Uncle Henry's Farm, Near Topeka." (The publicity material may not have been written by Baum, however.) In an installment of the "Queer Visitors" comic, Dorothy takes her friends to the (presumably nearby) Jones County Fair. Only trouble is, there is no Jones County in Kansas. Aunt Em also refers to a Topeka hotel in The Emerald City of Oz, which some Ozmologists have taken to mean that the farm was near there, but all it tells me is that Aunt Em once stayed in a hotel in Topeka. The non-FF novel The Ozmapolitan of Oz by Dick Martin mentions Dorothy and her family reading The Topeka Times when they lived in Kansas, which may strengthen the case a bit.

No clue is given in The Movie, but in Return to Oz, she lives just outside of Franklin, and Dr. Worley's clinic is located in Cottonwood Falls. Both of these town really do exist in Kansas — but Cottonwood Falls is about halfway between Topeka and Wichita, in east-central Kansas, while Franklin is in the southeastern part of the state, over one hundred miles away, so they're not neighboring communities as implied in that movie. (A newspaper ad for Dr. Worley also mentions Black River Falls and the Town of Brockway, neither of which appears to actually exist, at least not in Kansas. Research has discovered a character named Dr. J. B. Worley in the 1973 book Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy and Charles van Schaik. He, too, ran a "school and sanitarium of magnetic healing," which was located in Brockaway, Wisconsin, near Black River Falls.) In the Emerald City television series, she is from Lucas, an actual small town in north central Kansas. There is a tourist attraction, Dorothy's House, in Liberal, Kansas, in the southwestern part of the state near the Oklahoma border.

Some of the folks there say that Dorothy is from their town, but there is no basis for that claim. (It should be noted that many Kansans are not happy with Baum's unflattering portrayal of their state, and claim that he was actually describing South Dakota, where Baum lived for a few years before writing the book.) How old is Dorothy? Baum wrote Dorothy as a generic child, with few descriptors, and never gave her a specific age. She could be as young as five or as old as twelve if you go by the illustrations in different books. In the 1902 stage adaptation, she was probably quite a bit older, as some of the characters expressed a romantic interest in her. In The Movie, Judy Garland was sixteen during filming (by the time the film premiered, she had turned seventeen), but her costume included a corset to flatten her bosom so as to make her appear younger. Studio publicity of the day usually gave the character's age as twelve. An earlier film adaptation from 1925 had Dorothy celebrating her eighteenth birthday — and discovering that she was a lost princess of Oz!

In The Wiz on Broadway, Stephanie Mills was in her teens (but played her a bit younger), while in the film version, Dorothy was played by Diana Ross and was twenty-four (!). Fairuza Balk was ten when she made Return to Oz, but Dorothy's age was never given. In the novel Visitors from Oz, author Martin Gardner gives her age as seventeen, but this book is considered apocryphal by many Oz scholars. In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Dorothy, as played by Ashanti, is probably an older teenager, as she's working at her aunt and uncle's diner but longing to move on and become a Hollywood star. Best guess on how old she is in the books? In The Lost Princess of Oz it is stated that Betsy Bobbin is a year older than Dorothy, and Trot is a year younger. Then, in The Giant Horse of Oz, Trot declares that she is ten years old. If that's the case, then Dorothy would be eleven, and since nobody ages in Oz who doesn't want to, she's probably going to remain eleven. Of course, she would have been even younger on her first visit to Oz in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. What breed of dog is Toto?

It depends on your source. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum describes him as "a little black dog, with long, silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose." He never said what breed he was, but Denslow drew him as looking somewhat like a Cairn terrier or a Scottie. When Toto next appears in an Oz book, John R. Neill drew him as a Boston terrier or French bulldog (Neill had a French bulldog himself at the time), even though he was well aware of Denslow's depiction. In one illustration in that book, Neill's Toto laughs at a statue of himself, which Neill drew in Denslow's style, complete with signature seahorse. As Neill drew Toto more in later books, however, he got shaggier, and ended up looking more like Denslow's depiction, a convention other Oz illustrators have pretty much stuck with. For The Movie, Scotties were initially looked at, but when Carl Spitz brought in Terry, a Cairn terrier, she got the job, and Toto became a Cairn to many.

In the television series Emerald City, Toto is a police K-9 dog, so he is a German shepherd, and he gets the name Toto because it is the Munchkin word for dog. In other movies, and some newer illustrated editions of The Wizard of Oz, Toto has been depicted as other breeds. In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Toto wasn't even a dog; he was played by Pepe the King Prawn, so in Kansas, there was a reference to Dorothy adopting a prawn because she wasn't allowed to have a dog. Is Toto a male dog or a female dog? Male. But he was played by a female in The Movie. Does Toto talk? Not at first. When he wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum hadn't created all the rules that he would later use in the Oz stories. So Toto didn't talk in that book. Baum kept Toto mute in his appearances in The Road to Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, and The Patchwork Girl of Oz as well, even though other animals from the Outside World could talk in those and other books.

Finally, at the end of Tik-Tok of Oz, Baum addressed the problem at last. Dorothy confronted Toto and commanded him to talk, and Toto finally spoke for the first time. He's been speaking in the Oz books ever since, but he often prefers to stay quiet and use his native barks and growls instead. In the Russian books, however, Totoshka spoke as soon as he came to Magic Land. What's the name of Dorothy's cow? This seems to be a popular trivia question in radio contests. Dorothy doesn't have a pet cow in the books nor in any dramatic version of The Wizard of Oz. But in the 1902 stage production, Toto was replaced by Dorothy's pet cow Imogene, probably because it was easier to fit an actor inside a cow costume than a little black dog costume. A cow named Imogene appears in the Oz books in Eric Shanower's The Giant Garden of Oz, but other than the name and species, there is no relationship between the two characters, as Shanower's Imogene is an Ozian native who gives magic milk. What are the names of the Wicked Witch of the East and the Wicked Witch of the West?

In the "official" Oz books, neither witch is given a name. Nor are they named in The Movie, although an early draft of the script called the Wicked Witch of the West "Gulcheria" (an obvious reference to her Kansas counterpart, Miss Gulch). Some of the unofficial Oz books have given the Wicked Witch of the West a name, but there is no consistency, she's had several — most notably "Elphaba" in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, and "Allidap" in a number of books from both The Wiz Kids of Oz and Buckethead Enterprises of Oz. Some books have also used Bastinda, the name Aleksandr Volkov used for his wicked witch in The Wizard of the Emerald City (Volkov's equivalent of the Wicked Witch of the East was called "Gingemma"). The non-fiction reference work The Wizard of Oz Catalog consistently claims that the Wicked Witch of the West is named Blinky, but there appears to be no basis or justification for this name (and it shouldn't be confused with Blinkie, the witch in the book The Scarecrow of Oz).

In the 1910 film The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the wicked witch is named Momba. In The Wiz, the Wicked Witch of the East was named Evvamean on stage and Evermean in the film, and her sister in the west is Evillene both on stage and screen. In the novel and play versions of Wicked, the Wicked Witch of the East is Nessarose, and she is Elphaba's sister. In the novel The Living House of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West, who originated in a different, parallel Oz, was named Mordra. In Roger S. Baum's The Oz Odyssey, her name was Bekama. In Halloween in Oz: Dorothy Returns, the Wicked Witch of the West is named Wurstella, and the Wicked Witch of the East is Edsilla. When she appeared on the television show Once Upon a Time, the Wicked Witch of the West was named Zelena, and turned out to be the half-sister of Regina, the Evil Queen from Snow White. In the television miniseries Tin Man, the Wicked Witch of the West as named Azkadellia, and was D.

G.'s long lost sister. Are the wicked witches sisters? It depends on what version of the story you're enjoying. While many people seem to think so, no relationship between them is ever given in the book. The first mention of their being sisters probably comes from The Movie, and it's a kinship that many people have used ever since, including in The Wiz (in the play script, all four witches, good and bad, are described as sisters, but this may be the African-American use of the word to mean fellow African-American women), Wicked, and the Magic Land books of Aleksander Volkov. In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, all four witches are sisters — and as they're all played by Miss Piggy, it was easy to pull off. The Wicked Witch of the East and the Wicked Witch of the West were also sisters in the 1987 Cinar cartoon series The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Two examples that further add to this: In the animated movie Journey Back to Oz, Mombi the Witch is the cousin of both witches.

And in the book The Wicked Witch of Oz, written by Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Singra, the titular character, is also the cousin of both witches. But neither of these stories are seen as official by many Oz researchers. Both were written after the idea was first raised that the wicked witches are sisters. Why does water melt the Wicked Witch of the West? There is no explanation given in The Wizard of Oz as to why water dissolved and destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West. The only indication might be in an incident when Toto bites her: "The Witch did not bleed where she was bitten, for she was so wicked that the blood in her had dried up many years before." Many believe that she had extended her life through magical means for so long that there was actually very little of her left, and so the water was enough to finally break her down. (This was also the explanation used in the apocryphal novel A Barnstormer in Oz.) Some people have remembered that she was made of brown sugar, which is why she melted so easily — but I don't think she could be considered to be anywhere near that sweet!

The book actually described her demise this way: "...Dorothy...was truly frightened to see the Witch actually melting away like brown sugar before her very eyes [emphasis mine]." Similarly, the impact of Dorothy's house landing on the Wicked Witch of the East caused her to turn to dust. Some speculate that water is dangerous for all Oz witches, as buckets of water are kept around the palace in the Emerald City in case of emergencies (as seen in The Cowardly Lion of Oz), Mombi was washed out with water in The Lost King of Oz, and Singra in The Wicked Witch of Oz took the precaution of enchanting herself so that water would not affect her. In one made-for-record original sequel to The Wizard of Oz that I am aware of (The Further Adventures of the Wizard of Oz, issued by Golden Records in the late '60s or early '70s), water even washes out the Good Witch of the North, so water may not affect just wicked witches! Is there a Wicked Witch of the North or South? Yes, there are.

In the north, it's a pretty straightforward answer, as Mombi, first introduced in The Marvelous Land of Oz, has pretty much been give the title Wicked Witch of the North, even if she's never officially been called that or acknowledged it. But she was pretty mean, and deserves it. It's in the south that it gets complicated. In Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Ozma mentions that Glinda conquered the evil witch in the south, but that's all we hear of that tale. One character in The Scarecrow of Oz is Blinkie the Witch, and she's a pretty nasty character, too. So for many years, Oz fans called her the Wicked Witch of the South, and made up elaborate theories about how she was hiding out in Jinxland and the like. But while she wasn't very nice, her deeds were pretty small scale compared to the other wicked witches, and she never claimed that she was the Wicked Witch of the South.

(Further complicating matters is three other witches who come to Blinkie's aid in that book.) The first character to actually be called the Wicked Witch of the South was the unnamed witch in Eric Shanower's first graphic novel, The Enchanted Apples of Oz, published in 1986. She had been defeated by a powerful, unnamed sorceress and placed in an enchanted sleep. Then in 1993, IWOC published The Wicked Witch of Oz by Rachel Cosgrove Payes. The title character is Singra, who wakes up after a one hundred year-long nap. She is also called the Wicked Witch of the South. So, which one is the real Wicked Witch of the South? We have no definitive answer. Eric Shanower, who created one witch and illustrated the other, suggests that they were rival claimants to the title, and neither was willing to acknowledge the other. It's also possible that, thanks to their enchanted sleeps, they were each the Wicked Witch of the South at different times. What is the name of the good witch — and how do you spell it?

One of the most common misspellings I've encountered for an Oz character is the character played by Billie Burke in The Movie. She was the Good Witch of the South (later a sorceress) in the books, and Burke's character in The Movie was the Good Witch of the North, but no matter where she's from, her name is Glinda. That's G-L-I-N-D-A with an I, not G-L-E-N-D-A with an E. In The Wiz, the name was kept, but she was restored to being from the south. In Russia, the Good Witch of the South is named Stella. And in case you were really curious, in the books the Good Witch of the North, a separate character, is named Tattypoo in The Giant Horse of Oz, a name borrowed for the 2005 television production The Muppets' Wizard of Oz. Baum named the Good Witch of the North Locasta (sometimes also spelled Locusta) in the 1902 stage version of The Wizard of Oz. Some scripts for this play also give us the alternative spelling Galinda for the Good Witch of the South.

In Wicked, both in the book and on stage, she starts off as Galinda, but later shortens her name to honor one of her professors who kept leaving out the a. In Russia, the Good Witch of the North (also the Witch of the Yellow Country) is Villina, and in The Wiz she is Addaperle on stage, and Miss One on film. Finally, the good witch in the 1905 play The Woggle-Bug was named Maëtta, after a good witch in Baum's book A New Wonderland/The Magical Monarch of Mo. Maëtta took the role given to Glinda in The Marvelous Land of Oz, the book on which The Woggle-Bug is based. In the novel Halloween in Oz: Dorothy Returns, the Good Witch of the North is named Boreala. What is the origin of the name "Munchkin"? There is no known source of the name. It just appears to be a name Baum made up. But he was the first to use the word, which has now become a part of the English language and appears in several dictionaries. Most dictionaries even cite Baum and The Wizard of Oz as the source of the word.

In Russia, the characters are constantly chewing, which is how they got the name Zhevuny, or Munchers, from "munching" all the time. This is an invention of Volkov's, based on Baum's word. What are the names of the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion? Sadly, two of Dorothy's original friends on the Yellow Brick Road don't have names. The Scarecrow is just called "Scarecrow," and the Lion is just called "The Cowardly Lion." But the Tin Woodman does indeed have a name. It wasn't given in the original book, but in the 1902 stage play he was called Niccolo Chopper. This was shortened to Nick Chopper in the play. The shortened version of this name then appeared in the book The Marvelous Land of Oz, and he's been called Nick Chopper ever since. It was even used in Wicked and its sequels. The Cowardly Lion was given the nickname "Cowy" in Ruth Plumly Thompson's book The Enchanted Island of Oz, but it doesn't seem to have caught on with him, his friends, or the readers.

In Russia, the Scarecrow is named Strasheela (literally, "Little Scary One"), and the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion go unnamed, although the former becomes the more-apt-to-rust Iron Woodchopper, and (in the books of Sergei Sukhinov) his name when he was a flesh-and-blood person was Goode Kerly. In the 1961 television series Tales of the Wizard of Oz and 1964 television movie Return to Oz, both produced by Rankin-Bass, they are named Socrates the Scarecrow, Rusty the Tin Man, and Dandy Lion — but these names should not be taken at all seriously. In the film version of The Wiz, the Cowardly Lion is named Fleetwood Coupe de Ville — Fleet for short. In the stage musical Wicked, it turns out that the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman are enchanted versions of some of the other characters, but I won't reveal who so as to not spoil the surprise. And in his third book about Oz, A Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire gave the Cowardly Lion the name Brrr. What are the flying monkeys called?

Most people who ask me this question have already answered it, since they don't have an unusual or exotic tribal name. In the books, they're just called the flying monkeys or winged monkeys. In the books they aren't given individual names, but in The Movie their leader is named Nikko (see the question Who is Nikko? ). He is actually referred to as Nikko in some Movie-based play scripts. In the 1990 Wizard of Oz cartoon series, based on The Movie, the leader of the winged monkeys is called Truckel (I'm not sure exactly how that's spelled), but this could be a different monkey. In the Russian books, the leader of the Winged Monkeys is named Worra. In Wicked, the flying monkey who befriends Elphaba is named Chistery. What's the Wizard's name? Like so many other characters, the Wizard didn't have a name in the original novel. But in his second appearance in the Oz books, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, he reveals that his name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Issac Norman Henkle Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs. Of course, this meant that the poor man's initials were O. Z. P.

I. N. H. E. A. D. When he grew up, he shortened this to O. Z., and thus became Oz professionally. (The rest of the initials spelled "pinhead," which he felt reflected badly on his intelligence.) He worked in a circus as a magician, ventriloquist, and balloonist, and put his new name on all of his possessions, including his balloon. When an accident brought him to the land of Oz, the citizens, seeing the name of their country on the balloon, thought he was their new ruler. He's now generally called Oz or Wizard. In Russia, he is named James Goodwin. In the film version of The Wiz, he was named Herman Smith. In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, he was named Francis Cornfine. In the novel Halloween in Oz: Dorothy Returns, the Wizard is called both Oztoz and Jeremiah M. Quincy (perhaps the latter is his real name, and Oztoz an Oz name or title he adopted). Where is the Wizard from? In the books, and the stage version of The Wiz, the Wizard is from Omaha, Nebraska.

In The Movie, he says he's "an old Kansas man myself," and his balloon reads "State Fair Omaha." In the film version of The Wiz, he's from Atlantic City, New Jersey. In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, he was a tour bus driver from Hollywood. In the Russian books, James Goodwin is from Kansas. In the 1902 stage play, an "ethnic" comedian was often cast as the Wizard, so depending on which performance you saw, he could have been Irish, Dutch, or German. Was the Wizard modeled after anybody? There has been much speculation on this by Ozmologists. Some have made a compelling argument that the Wizard could have been based on turn-of-the-century stage magician Harry Kellar. Others have made an equally compelling case for the Wizard being based on circus impresario P. T. Barnum. Still others claim that the Wizard was modeled after Washington Harrison "Professor" Donaldson, a ventriloquist, magician, tightrope walker, and balloonist who worked for Barnum — and disappeared in his balloon during a storm over Lake Michigan in 1875. Others have mentioned Civil War balloonist and engineer T. S. C.

Lowe as a possible Wizard model. The Wizard has also been compared to Thomas Edison, Dr. William P. Phelon (leader of a Theosophical society of which Frank and Maud Baum were members), confidence man John A. Hamlin, and even L. Frank Baum himself. Whether Baum had any contemporary figure in mind when creating the Wizard, we will probably never know with any degree of certainty. What's the name of the Soldier with the Green Whiskers? This is a bit complicated. The Soldier with the Green Whiskers first appears in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and also takes part in the action in the next book, The Marvelous Land of Oz. He doesn't appear again until The Patchwork Girl of Oz — until one discovers that he appeared in three books without the green whiskers! In Ozma of Oz, the one private in Ozma's army is named Omby Amby. Omby Amby also has a large part in The Emerald City of Oz, and reveals that when he was a private, he once cut off his long green whiskers to disguise himself from an army of rebels.

The Soldier with the Green Whiskers in The Marvelous Land of Oz even mentioned that he would do just that so he could escape. The Wizard, upon returning to Oz in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, also recognizes the Soldier with the Green Whiskers, even though he has shaven off his beard (this soldier's name is not given, but it is clearly the same character). So, the Soldier with the Green Whiskers is named Omby Amby, right? Maybe not! Throughout the rest of the Oz books by Baum and Thompson, he has his green whiskers again, but isn't called by any name until Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, when Ruth Plumly Thompson gives him the name Wantowin Battles. Is this a new name Omby Amby is using? It's doubtful, as Thompson mentions that the soldier is from a Munchkin family named Battles. (In Thompson's defense, it's quite likely that she overlooked the connections between Omby Amby and the Soldier with the Green Whiskers that Baum made. It is subtle, and mentioned in passing, in both Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz and The Emerald City of Oz.

It has also been speculated that the name was not created by Thompson, but by a Reilly and Lee editor who was finishing up Thompson's incomplete book.) John R. Neill also used the name Wantowin Battles for the character, but Jack Snow gave him back the name Omby Amby — and was, in fact, the first writer to use the name with the character when he was actually wearing green whiskers. The difference between the two names is still unexplained at this point, but many Ozmologists have chosen to overlook the name Wantowin Battles. To add to the mix, he is named Din Gior in Russia. What's the connection between Jack Pumpkinhead and Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas? Many people have noted some similarities between the Oz character Jack Pumpkinhead, first introduced in The Marvelous Land of Oz in 1904, and Jack Skellington, the main character in the 1993 Tim Burton animated movie The Nightmare Before Christmas — primarily, both are named Jack and both have a pumpkin fixation (the latter's most famous line is probably "I am the Pumpkin King!"). Some have even wondered if the existence of Jack Pumpkinhead influenced Tim Burton and the creation of Jack Skellington.

However, the two are not as similar as one might think. The Oz character has a wooden body and a pumpkin for a head, and is a farmer in the Winkie Country. The movie character is a living skeleton, and is the coordinator of Halloween events in Halloween Town. Jack Pumpkinhead is not generally considered to be very bright (you try being intelligent if your brains were nothing but pumpkinseeds) and is a bit rustic, while Jack Skellington is quite smart in both thought and manner. So they really aren't all that similar. Remember, jack o' lanterns carved from pumpkins predate both characters. However, in his first scene in The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington does have a pumpkin on his head, and looks very much like Jack Pumpkinhead. Also, the director of Nightmare was Henry Sellick who, eight years earlier, had been a storyboard artist on Return to Oz, and therefore had several opportunities to draw Jack Pumpkinhead. From another perspective, similarities can also be seen between Scraps, the Patchwork Girl of the Oz books, and Sally in The Nightmare Before Christmas, so there may be another connection there, but it's also not terribly likely.

Why doesn't Polychrome recognize the Shaggy Man in Tik-Tok of Oz, even though they traveled together in The Road to Oz? The Shaggy Man and Polychrome, the rainbow's daughter, first meet in the 1909 book, The Road to Oz, and both travel with Dorothy and are major characters. When the two characters meet again in the 1914 book, Tik-Tok of Oz, however, they don't appear to recognize each other: "I - I've lost my bow!" wailed Polychrome. "Take me, my dear," said Shaggy Man in a sympathetic tone, thinking she meant "beau" instead of "bow." "I don't want you!" cried Polychrome, stamping her foot imperiously; "I want my Rainbow." "Oh; that's different," said Shaggy. "But try to forget it. When I was young I used to cry for the Rainbow myself, but I couldn't have it. Looks as if you can't have it, either; so please don't cry." Polychrome looked at him reproachfully. "I don't like you," she said.

So why don't they seem to recognize each other? This stems from the origins of Tik-Tok of Oz, as the play The Tik-Tok Man of Oz a year earlier. As playgoers would most likely not be familiar with The Road to Oz, they didn't recognize each other there so they wouldn't have to stop and explain how they already knew each other. And yet, their dialogue in Tik-Tok of Oz continues: "No?" replied Shaggy [in response to Polychrome's previous "I don't like you" line], drawing the Love Magnet from his pocket; "not a little bit? - just a wee speck of a like?" "Yes, yes!" said Polychrome, clasping her hands in ecstasy as she gazed at the enchanted talisman; "I love you, Shaggy Man!" [Aha, she remembers his name now.] "Of course you do," said he calmly; "but I don't take any credit for it. It's the Love Magnet's powerful charm. But you seem quite alone and friendless, little Rainbow.

Don't you want to join our party until you find your father and sisters again?" It's subtle, but the Shaggy Man does seem to know Polychrome after all, and certainly knows about her father and sisters. It's entirely possible that Polychrome was so distraught over being left on Earth that she wasn't thinking clearly when the Shaggy Man first talked to her, and didn't really recognize him until he showed her the Love Magnet. Perhaps this initial confusion was Baum's tip of the hat to those who had seen The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, and a way to keep the bow/beau joke. Glinda the Good (Character) Glinda the Good (Character) There may be more photos available for this character. To select more photos to be displayed in this character's gallery, click the Edit Photos link. Overview Biography: Glinda is the Good Witch of the North, who first mistakes Dorothy and Toto for witches...

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Read More » Top Q&A For: Name of the bad witch in"The Wizard of Oz" What was the name of the witch of in"The Wizard of Oz"? The Wicked Witch of the West is the famous witch from the "Wizard of Oz." In the book by L. Frank Baum and the famous movie based on it, she is not given a name. Gregory Maguire's book "Wicked" and... Read More » What was the name of the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz? The wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz was known only as the Wicked Witch of the West in Oz and she was never given a name other than this. When the characters were all in Kansas, this same person wa... Read More » What is the name of the good witch in'The Wizard of Oz'? In the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," the good witch is identified as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The children's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," however, has two good witches: the unnam... Read More » Who was the Wicked Witch of the East in"The Wizard of Oz"?

The Wicked Witch of the East was the ruler of Munchkinland in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz." Dorothy's house crushed the nameless bad witch when it landed in Oz. The munchkins rejoiced in song ... Read More » Dorthy lands in Munchkin land - YouTube Dorthy lands in Munchkin land Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Sep 16, 2008 Dorothy and Toto land in a new world called OZ and are greeted by the Good Witch of the North, Glinda. I DO NOT OWN ANY RIGHTS Category

Question: What is the name of the good witch in "The Wizard of Oz"?
Answer: Glinda