According to L Frank Baum what was the name of the Good Witch of the South?
"is very emotional, especially when compared to the reserved behavior of Glinda's. Despite claiming to hate magic because it could not save her mother and sister witches during the Beast Forever's last attack, she resorts to it quickly when in pursuit of Dorothy after she accidentally killed East. 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"
"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),"
"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 in the 1939 film musical) held many mysterious powers and were her"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Gillikin province named Up Town as the new rulers of the Gillikins. In 2000, Dave Hardenbrook published ""The Unknown Witches of Oz"", with Locasta, the Good Witch of the North, as the main protagonist. Dave Hardenbrook wished to reconcile L. Frank Baum's original version of the character with Ruth Plumly Thompson's version. In Hardenbrook's novel, Locasta and Queen Orin were ""switched"" by Mombi, the same way Mombi ""switched"" herself with the maid Jellia Jamb in L. Frank Baum's novel, ""The Marvelous Land of Oz"". Locasta, the true Good Witch of the North, was lost in the Great Outside World, while"
"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"","
"by L. Frank Baum. The first story arc is an adaptation of the first Oz book, ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"". It follows the adventures of Dorothy, an orphan girl living out in the gray prairies of Kansas with her Aunt Em, her Uncle Henry and her dog Toto. One day, After Em and Uncle Henry leave Dorothy and Toto alone in order to travel into town. A tornado appears, uproots the farmhouse, with Dorothy and Toto inside, and transports it to the Land of Oz. In Oz Dorothy meets the Good Witch of the North, who tells her that"
"of the dark in Baum's original story for reasons unknown. For that reason, the Witch never tried to steal the Silver Shoes while Dorothy was sleeping. Despite her fear of water and the dark, the Wicked Witch of the West was one of the most powerful witches in all of Oz. In ensuing Oz books, her power is described as having been so great that even Glinda the Good Witch of the South feared her. The 1910 silent film ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" features a character similar to the Wicked Witch of the West, identified in intertitles as ""Momba"
"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"
"North, only to be deposed by the Good Witch of the North. Furthermore, Mombi had enslaved Ozma's father (King Pastoria) and grandfather, thereby removing the Royal Family of Oz, and enabling herself and the Wicked Witches of the East, West and South to conquer and divide the land between them. After forcing her to disenchant Princess Ozma, Glinda the Good Witch of the South made Mombi drink a powerful draught that stripped the old witch of all her magic powers. Mombi didn't make any further appearances in L. Frank Baum's books. In Ruth Plumly Thompson's ""The Lost King of Oz"","
"but is otherwise only mentioned elsewhere in the series. L. Frank Baum presented her as an extremely kind and gentle character who stood against the oppression and subjugation of people. She became the Ruler of the Gillikin Country in the North after freeing the Gillikins from the clutches of Mombi, the erstwhile Wicked Witch of the North. However, the character's kindness and magnanimity of spirit was not confined to her own domain, and she was loved not only by her own subjects but also by other people in Oz, such as the Munchkins. Although she wasn't as powerful as the"
"better niche as a visual comedy character, in the tradition of British pantomime. The part of Hank was also an analog to the part of Dorothy's cow Imogene, Toto's replacement on stage in the immensely successful 1903 Broadway version of ""The Wizard of Oz"", a success that Baum sought to duplicate for the rest of his life. There is one small kingdom in Oz where animals are unable to talk: Corumbia. A legend of uncertain validity is that when relating bedtime stories (the earliest form of the Oz books) Baum was asked by his niece, Ramona Baxter Bowden, the name"
"for the fact that the West was still undeveloped at the time. The Munchkins Dorothy encounters at the beginning of the novel represent farmers, as do the Winkies she later meets. Baum's wife frequently visited her niece, Dorothy Louise Gage. The infant became gravely sick and died on November 11, 1898, from ""congestion of the brain"" at exactly five months. When the baby, whom Maud adored as the daughter she never had, died, she was devastated and needed to consume medicine. To assuage her distress, Frank made his protagonist of ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" a female named Dorothy. Uncle"
"to become the notorious Wicked Witch of the West. Maguire fashioned the name of Elphaba from the initials of Lyman Frank Baum, L-F-B. The story is divided into five different sections, based on the plot location. A prologue presents Elphaba spying on Dorothy and her friends, and hearing their gossip about her. Elphaba is born to Melena Thropp, who is the grand-daughter of the Eminent Thropp of Munchkinland, and is the wife of Frexspar, an itinerant unionist minister. Frex is the seventh son of a seventh son, all ministers. Because Melena is bored and outcast, she takes comfort in strangers"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"with her, the Wicked Witch of the South and Mombi to conquer the Land of Oz and divide it among themselves, as recounted in L. Frank Baum's ""Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz"". She shows no interest in the death of the Eastern Witch, and all she cares about is obtaining the Silver Shoes which will increase her power. W. W. Denslow's illustrations for ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" depict her as a paunched old hag with three pigtails and an eye-patch. L. Frank Baum himself specified that she only had one eye, but that it ""was as powerful as"
"Witch of the North had banned the practice of magic by any other witch in Gillikin Country (thereby minimizing potential future threats). The Gillikin Country had once been under the power of Mombi, but she was overpowered and routed by the Good Witch of the North, as revealed in ""Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz"". Thus, the Wicked Witch of the North was forced to be no more than a lowly wizardess, under the Good Witch of the North's rule. In Baum's fifth Oz book, ""The Road to Oz"", the Witch of the North is one of the many guests"
"a talking animal), while traveling through Oz or one of the neighboring regions, find themselves in an obscure community where the inhabitants engage in a single activity. The inhabitants of this community then capture the travelers, and force them to participate in this same activity. Another major theme has elderly characters, most controversially, the Good Witch of the North, being restored to ""marriageable"" age, possibly because Thompson herself never married. She had a greater tendency toward the use of romantic love stories (which Baum usually avoided in his fairy tales, with about four exceptions). While Baum's child protagonists tended to"
"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"
"Nessarose Nessarose Thropp is the name of the woman who becomes the Wicked Witch of the East in """" by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway adaptation, ""Wicked"". She is the beautiful and physically handicapped younger sister of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. In both Maguire's novel and the musical version, the character is portrayed in a much less negative light than L. Frank Baum's original Wicked Witch of the East. Nessarose possesses sympathetic and admirable qualities, but these are ultimately overshadowed by her increasingly uncompromising and self-righteous nature. She earns her infamous title upon becoming"
"Dorothy of Oz (book) Dorothy of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum's great-grandson Roger S. Baum. The book details Dorothy Gale returning to the Land of Oz when a Jester has been using the wand of the Wicked Witch of the West (which also contained the ghost of the Wicked Witch of the West) to take over the Land of Oz. The book was adapted into a film called """" in 2014 by Clarius Entertainment. Several weeks after returning to Kansas from the Land of Oz, Dorothy Gale looks out of her bedroom window and sees"
"Nome King The Nome King is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum. He is introduced in Baum's third Oz book ""Ozma of Oz"" (1907). He also appears in many of the continuing sequel ""Oz"" novels also written by Baum. Although the character of the Wicked Witch of the West is the most notable and famous Oz villain (due to her appearance in the 1939 MGM musical ""The Wizard of Oz""), it is actually the Nome King who is the most frequent antagonist throughout the entire book series. Katharine M. Rogers, a biographer of L. Frank Baum,"
"with Lady Lindeva as his Queen. The Runaway Shadows ""The Runaway Shadows, or A Trick of Jack Frost"" is a twentieth-century fairy tale, a fantasy short story written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz. The story is one of a small cluster of Baum narratives that involve his fantasy land the Forest of Burzee and its exotic denizens. Arguably, Burzee constitutes Baum's second most important fantasy realm after Oz itself, being employed in his novels ""The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus"" (1902) and ""Queen Zixi of Ix"" (1905) and several of his"
"Wizard flies away in his balloon, the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, Dorothy, and Toto travel south to the land of the Quadlings to ask Glinda for her advice. In the well-known 1939 film version, Glinda is a composite character with the Witch of the North. Later books call her a ""Sorceress"" rather than a ""witch"", though Baum's writings make clear that he did not view witches as inherently wicked or in league with the devil. In the books, Glinda is depicted as a beautiful young woman with long, rich red hair and blue eyes, wearing a pure white dress."
"Pastoria and hid away his daughter Ozma. This was Baum's reaction to the popular 1903 Broadway extravaganza Baum adapted from his book, ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", in which the Wizard took the role of the main antagonist and the Wicked Witch of the West was left out. The Wizard, however, had been more popular with his readers than he thought. In ""Ozma of Oz"", he omitted any mention of the Wizard's having usurped the throne of Ozma's father, but the largest changes occurred in the next book. In the preface to ""Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz"", Baum remarks"
"Queen Zixi of Ix Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak, is a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Frederick Richardson. It was originally serialized in the early 20th-century American children's magazine ""St. Nicholas"" from November 1904 to October 1905, and was published in book form later in 1905 by The Century Company. The events of the book alternate between Noland and Ix, two neighboring regions to the Land of Oz, and Baum himself commented this was the best book he had written. In a letter to his eldest son, Frank Joslyn"
"in the credits, which list him as ""Roquat"". The Nome King appears in ""Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz"" portrayed by JP Karliak. His plans to take over the Land of Oz and his fear of chickens remain in intact with the series. Nome King The Nome King is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum. He is introduced in Baum's third Oz book ""Ozma of Oz"" (1907). He also appears in many of the continuing sequel ""Oz"" novels also written by Baum. Although the character of the Wicked Witch of the West is the most notable"
"body, but rather brought by Toto from her dwelling (a dark cave). This was possibly done to avert the problem of a person wearing the shoes to be impossible to harm, since in that book the hurricane is created by the Wicked Witch to destroy mankind, and redirected upon her by the Good Witch of the North, who suffers no ill effects for harming her. It is said the Witch only wore the shoes on very special occasions. They are lost just like in Baum's book. In Roger S. Baum's ""Dorothy of Oz"" (1989), Glinda recovers the silver shoes and"
"the same name from L. Frank Baum's ""Land of Oz"" book series. In December 2013, Rebecca Mader was cast as the Wicked Witch of the West. She made multiple appearances during the second half of season three and was promoted to a series regular for the show's fifth season. The role of the Wicked Witch of the West was written specifically for Rebecca Mader. It was announced that the writers had chosen not to continue with Zelena's storyline and Mader would not be returning for the seventh season of the show. However, Mader later revealed that she would be returning"