"the Wicked Witch of the West. Glinda tells Dorothy that the Wizard of Oz might be able to help her return home, and how to find him (""Follow the Yellow Brick Road""). Dorothy sets off toward the Emerald City to speak to the great Oz (""You’re Off to See the Wizard""). On her way, she meets the Scarecrow, who feels inadequate with a head full of only stuffing (""If I Only Had a Brain""). Dorothy invites him to travel with her, hoping the Wizard can help him (""We’re Off to See the Wizard""). They soon meet the Tin Man, who"
"Good Witch of the North The Good Witch of the North, sometimes named Locasta or Tattypoo, is a fictional character in the Land of Oz, created by American author L. Frank Baum. She is the elderly and mild-mannered Ruler of the Gillikin Country. Her only significant appearance in Baum's work is in Chapter 2 of ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" (1900), in which she introduces Dorothy to Oz and sends her to meet the Wizard, after placing a protective kiss on her forehead. She makes a brief cameo appearance at Princess Ozma's birthday party in ""The Road to Oz"" (1909),"
"and introduces herself as ""the Witch of the North"", with the word ""Witch"" capitalized in both cases. However, when she goes on to tell Dorothy that ""I [the Witch of the North] am a good witch, and the people love me"", the word ""witch"" is not capitalized. White is the traditional color of witches in Oz. The Good Witch of the North wears a pointed white hat and a white gown decorated with stars, while Glinda, the Good Witch of the South (called a ""sorceress"" in later books), wears a pure white dress. Dorothy is taken for a witch not"
"television movies and comedy shows, and such feature films as ""The Wiz"" and ""The Cotton Club"". Carpenter suffered cardiac arrest and died in New York on May 14, 1997. She was cremated and left no immediate survivors. Thelma Carpenter Thelma Carpenter (January 15, 1922 – May 14, 1997) was a jazz singer and actress, best known as ""Miss One"", the Good Witch of the North in the movie ""The Wiz"". As a child performer, Carpenter had her own radio show on WNYC in New York and won an amateur night at the Apollo Theatre in 1938, where she would be"
"The Good Witch of the West Firiel Dee is given her mother's necklace by her childhood friend, Rumpelstiltskin(Roux). The necklace was meant as a birthday gift from her remote father, the astrologer Gideon Dee. All fifteen-year-olds are welcome to attend a public ball at the royal Roland castle in honor of the Queen's Birthday, and Firiel decides to wear her new necklace to the celebration. When it is recognized as a missing talisman of the royal family, this leads to the revelation that Firiel is the daughter of royalty and automatically in competition to become the next Queen. There are"
"that witches and wizards can be both good and evil, unlike the evil witches that Dorothy had been told of. That book contained only the four witches (besides the humbug wizard), but despite Ozma's prohibition on magic, many more magicians feature in later works. Baum tended to capitalize the word ""Witch"" when referring to the Witches of the North, South, East or West, but did not do so when referring to witches in general. For example, in the aforementioned first scene of ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", Locasta (or Tattypoo) thanks Dorothy for killing the ""Wicked Witch of the East"","
"Margaret Hamilton (actress) Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American film character actress best known for her portrayal of Miss Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's classic film ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939). A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actress in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image. In later years, Hamilton made frequent cameo appearances on television sitcoms and commercials. She also gained recognition for her work as an advocate of causes designed to benefit children and animals, and"
"may derive from its use in sword and sorcery, where the hero would be the sword-wielder, leaving the sorcery for his opponent. ""Witch"" also carries evil connotations. L. Frank Baum named Glinda the ""Good Witch of the South"" in ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"". In ""The Marvelous Land of Oz, ""he dubbed her ""Glinda the Good,"" and from that point forward and in subsequent books, Baum referred to her as a sorceress rather than a witch to avoid the term that was more regarded as evil. ""Wizard"" and ""warlock"" usually refer to a male, while ""witch"" usually refers to a"
"Charlie Smalls's Broadway hit, ""The Wiz"", the Good Witch of the North is named ""Addaperle"". She is portrayed by Amber Riley in the 2015 television special. In the 1978 film version, her name is ""Miss One"" (played by Thelma Carpenter). Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, is a separate character in both stage and film versions. In the 1982 anime film, The Good Witch of the North is again the grandmotherly figure of the novel. In the American version, she is voiced by an unbilled Elizabeth Hanna, who also played the Wicked Witch of the West. While appearing very"
"expert on Oz, but this statement made by Guph once again foreshadows a much later cinematic rendition of Glinda, in the film version of the Broadway musical ""The Wiz"" in which Glinda (played by Lena Horne) is responsible for the twister that brings Dorothy's house to Oz and sets all subsequent events into motion. Of all the characters in L. Frank Baum's Oz, Glinda is the most enigmatic. Despite being titled ""Glinda the Good,"" she is not a one-dimensional caricature whose sole purpose is to embody and generate all that is generically considered ""good,"" as indicated above. She ultimately becomes"
"of Witches. Later, after the Wicked Witch of the West takes over Emerald City, She is relocated back to the North, where she becomes the cruel ""Wicked Witch of the North"" and is responsible for turning Stanum into the Tin Man. In the novel ""Dorothy Must Die"", by Danielle Paige, former Good Witch of the North Gert is a member of the Order of the Wicked. Good Witch of the North The Good Witch of the North, sometimes named Locasta or Tattypoo, is a fictional character in the Land of Oz, created by American author L. Frank Baum. She is"
"She is able to summon the powers of ""all the good fairies"" when restoring Princess Ozma to her rightful form, almost making her equal to L. Frank Baum's Queen Lurline (whereas Baum's Glinda is a stately sorceress showing no association with fairy magic or ""unscrupulous"" witchcraft, insisting that the witch Mombi herself disenchant Ozma unlike in this film). Apart from undoing Mombi's evil magic herself, this incarnation of Glinda also tells the old Gillikin witch that she has ""allowed"" her to practice some of her ""less horrible tricks"" thus far, suggesting that every practitioner of magic in Oz is ultimately"
"Wizard is checking to make sure that all the fairy tales under his care are ""on track"" to have their traditional happy endings. As we meet him however, the Wizard is leaving for Scotland for a long-overdue vacation. He leaves the kingdom in the hands of Munk and Mambo. Ella is a girl who is better known as Cinderella (Sarah Michelle Gellar). She lives as a servant to her step family, dreams of the Prince (Patrick Warburton) who will sweep her off her feet. Her best friend at the palace is Rick (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), the palace dishwasher. Rick takes"
"1939 film version. In the original novel ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", the Good Witch of the North is summoned to the Munchkin Country when Dorothy Gale's falling house kills the Wicked Witch of the East. She arrives at the site of the Wicked Witch's death with three Munchkins and is the only one brave enough to speak to Dorothy, who, having killed the Witch of the East, is believed to be a powerful sorceress. She welcomes Dorothy to the Land of the Munchkins, points out the body of the dead witch and then introduces herself as the Witch of"
"initials on his balloon and took them as a message that he was to be their king. She relates that the country was already named Oz (a word which in their language means ""great and good""), and that it was typical for the rulers to have names that are variations of Oz (King Pastoria being a notable exception to this rule). Ozma elaborates further, saying that there were once four Wicked Witches in Oz, who leagued together to depose the King, but the Wicked Witches of the North and South were defeated by Good Witches before the Wizard arrived in"
"Billie Burke Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) known professionally as Billie Burke, was an American actress who was famous on Broadway, on radio, early silent film, and subsequently in sound film. She is best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the movie musical ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939). Burke was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1938 for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in ""Merrily We Live"" and is also remembered for her appearances in the ""Topper"" film series. Her high-pitched, wavering,"
"39 tracks. The Good Witch of the West Firiel Dee is given her mother's necklace by her childhood friend, Rumpelstiltskin(Roux). The necklace was meant as a birthday gift from her remote father, the astrologer Gideon Dee. All fifteen-year-olds are welcome to attend a public ball at the royal Roland castle in honor of the Queen's Birthday, and Firiel decides to wear her new necklace to the celebration. When it is recognized as a missing talisman of the royal family, this leads to the revelation that Firiel is the daughter of royalty and automatically in competition to become the next Queen."
"of the West and Galinda, the beautiful, blonde, popular girl who grows up to become Glinda the Good Witch of the South. The story is divided into five different sections based on the plot location, and presents events, characters, and situations from L. Frank Baum's ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" (1900) and its 1939 film adaptation in new ways. It is designed to set the reader thinking about what it really is to be ""Wicked"", and whether good intentions with bad results are the same as bad intentions with bad results. Schwartz considered how best to condense the novel's dense"
"up with the Wicked Witch of the East. The witch sends Lion on a journey to find the Flower of Oz, the source of all things good in the land. On his way he meets a mysterious girl who is accompanied by animated toys, and they set off together to find the Flower of Oz. On the way they come to many adventures, an evil seamstress who's working for the Wicked Witch of the East, mini munchkins, and The Wizard of Oz himself. But if Lion doesn't find the flower in time, he will lose his badge of courage to"
"Thelma Carpenter Thelma Carpenter (January 15, 1922 – May 14, 1997) was a jazz singer and actress, best known as ""Miss One"", the Good Witch of the North in the movie ""The Wiz"". As a child performer, Carpenter had her own radio show on WNYC in New York and won an amateur night at the Apollo Theatre in 1938, where she would be honored and perform nearly 60 years later on the 1993 all-star NBC-TV special ""Apollo Theater Hall of Fame, hosted by Bill Cosby. She played such clubs as Kelly's Stables and the Famous Door on legendary 52nd Street,"
"Wicked Witch of the West The Wicked Witch of the West is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum as the most significant antagonist in his classic children's novel ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" (1900). In Baum's subsequent ""Oz"" novels, it is the Nome King who is the principal villain; the Wicked Witch of the West is rarely even referred to again after her death in the first book. The witch's most popular depiction was in the classic 1939 film based on Baum's novel, where she was portrayed by Margaret Hamilton. Hamilton's characterization introduced green skin and"
"the Ozarks, claimed by a few academics as practicing from the 1880s to the 1930s. They are theorized to be usually elder women in the community and may have been the only practitioners of health care in the poor rural areas of Southern Appalachia. They are often thought to not have expected or received payment, and were respected as authorities on herbal healing and childbirth. They are mentioned by John C. Campbell in ""The Southern Highlander and His Homeland"": White witch and good witch are qualifying terms in English used to distinguish practitioners of folk magic for benevolent purposes (i.e."
"jam?"" She is introduced (though unnamed), in ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" (1900), and is described as having pretty green hair and green eyes and wears a green silk dress with green satin sashes and a green apron. In the novel, she is the young and charming maid who immediately responds to the Soldier with the Green Whiskers after he blows upon his green whistle, informing the staff that guests have arrived at the royal palace in the Emerald City. She handles the separate rooms of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion during their stay and upon their"
"cyclone that deposits her farmhouse into Munchkin Country in the magical Land of Oz. The falling house has killed the Wicked Witch of the East, the evil ruler of the Munchkins. The Good Witch of the North arrives with three grateful Munchkins and gives Dorothy the magical Silver Shoes that once belonged to the Wicked Witch. The Good Witch tells Dorothy that the only way she can return home is to go to the Emerald City and ask the great and powerful Wizard of Oz to help her. As Dorothy embarks on her journey, the Good Witch of the North"
"the MGM film. Glinda appears in ""Return to Oz"". She is seen in the background at the coronation of Princess Ozma. In Panmedia's 1986 animated series, Glinda is portrayed as a tall and very slender sorceress with long blue hair. It is she who offers to make Dorothy a Princess of Oz in this series, during their very first encounter, but Dorothy maintains that she wishes to return to Kansas. In Baum's ""The Land of Oz"", Glinda categorically states that she does not engage in ""transformations"" because ""they are not real"", but in this series, the Good Witch transforms into"
"Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", with science fiction and additional fantasy elements added. It focuses on the adventures of a small-town waitress named DG who is pulled into a magical realm called the O.Z., ruled by the tyrannical sorceress Azkadellia. Together with her companions Glitch, Raw, and Cain, DG journeys to uncover her lost memories, find her true parents. and foil Azkadellia's plot to trap the O.Z. in eternal darkness. Costing $20 million to produce, the first part of the mini-series was the highest-rated program in its time slot, with 6.4 million viewers; the mini-series itself would be the highest-rated mini-series"
"of Oz"" and Disney's 2013 theatrical film ""Oz the Great and Powerful"". Wicked Witch of the East The Wicked Witch of the East is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum. She is a crucial character but appears only briefly in Baum's classic children's series of ""Oz"" novels, most notably ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" (1900). The Wicked Witch was a middle aged, malevolent woman who conquered and tyrannized the Munchkin Country in Oz's eastern quadrant, forcing the native Munchkins to slave for her night and day. Her charmed Silver Shoes (famously changed to magic ruby slippers"
"harness her powers, Zelena views the western area of Oz, which she will be responsible for watching over. She and Glinda approach the wreckage from a cyclone to rescue a young girl named Dorothy. Fearing this child, who also arrived by cyclone, is the actual Witch of the West, Zelena researches the prophecy in the Book of Records, discovering that the sorceress will ""unseat the greatest evil the realm has ever seen"", which she believes is herself. Even with Glinda's advisement that her fears may be not true, Zelena plots to get rid of Dorothy by attacking the girl with"
"bravery and farm girl feistiness. And whether it’s magic, Munchkins, flying monkeys or her arch-nemesis Wilhelmina, the wicked witch-in-training and niece of the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy is ready to track down and put a stop to any problem that comes Oz’s way with help from her dog Toto and their friends Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion. At the start of the second season, the Wizard of Oz ends up back in Oz after getting mixed up in another tornado. Now that he has returned at last, he plots to make himself into a real wizard by"
"in detail), Glinda the Good finally finds Ozma who was transformed by a witch named Mombi into a boy called Tip to keep anyone from recognizing the King's daughter, thus allowing her to ascend to the royal throne. Glinda forced Mombi to undo this curse and Ozma was established back in her place as the official imperial child Queen of Oz. Baum actually created the character of Pastoria for the 1902 stage musical, ""The Wizard of Oz"", freely adapted from his book. At the start of that play, King Pastoria II has been banished from Oz and is working as"
"with talking creatures. In many of the Oz books, Dorothy is the main heroine of the story. She is often seen with her best friend and the ruler of Oz, Princess Ozma. Her trademark blue and white gingham dress is admired by the Munchkins because blue is their favorite color and white is worn only by good witches and sorceresses, which indicates to them that Dorothy is a good witch. Dorothy has a forthright and take-charge character, exhibiting no fear when she slaps the Cowardly Lion, and organizing the Winkies' rescue mission of her friends who have been dismembered by"
"Elphaba Elphaba Thropp is a fictional character in """" by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway and West End adaptations, ""Wicked"". In the original L. Frank Baum book ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", the Wicked Witch of the West is unnamed and little is explained about her life. Elphaba is modeled after the Witch portrayed by Margaret Hamilton in the classic 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"": green-skinned, clad entirely in black and wearing a tall peaked hat. Maguire formulated the name ""Elphaba"" from the phonetic pronunciation of Baum's initials L.F.B. In both adaptations, Elphaba is also called"
"great Wizard of Oz to help her return home. The Wicked Witch of the West, sister of the late Wicked Witch of the East, vows revenge upon Dorothy. Dorothy meets the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. The Scarecrow wants to get a brain, and the Tin Woodman needs a heart (""If I Only Had a Brain""/""If I Only Had a Heart""). Dorothy suggests that the Wizard can help them too (""We're Off to See the Wizard""). They then meet the Cowardly Lion (""If I Only Had the Nerve""). The four friends travel down the yellow brick road, having been warned"