Good Witch of the North (Baum)
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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.[1] 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 Gale 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), but is otherwise only mentioned elsewhere in the series.
Her role was significantly expanded in the
Literature
The classic books
In the original novel
At the beginning of
In Baum's fifth Oz book, The Road to Oz, the Witch of the North is one of the many guests who attend Ozma's birthday party. She amuses the 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 name of the Good Witch of the North in Baum's own stage version of
The 1939 movie
In the classic 1939 MGM movie
Later works
In The Giant Horse of Oz, Ruth Plumly Thompson names the Good Witch of the North "Tattypoo"; as the story unfolds, Tattypoo turns out to be the bewitched form of a beautiful Munchkin queen named Orin. Orin had originally been kidnapped by the former Wicked Witch of the North, Mombi, who was in love with her husband, King Cheeriobed of the Ozure Isles. In order to remove her rival, Mombi kidnapped Orin soon after the birth of her son, Prince Philador. She then transformed Orin into an old witch who had no recollection of her former life as Queen of the Ozure Isles. Eventually, as Tattypoo, Orin was able to displace Mombi as the ruler of the Gillikins. After being restored to her real self, twenty five years later, Orin loses the magical powers she acquired as the Good Witch of the North. She returns to her husband and son and resumes her life as Queen of the Ozure Isles, no longer wishing to rule the Gillikin Country. At the end of the book, Princess Ozma proclaims Jo King and Queen Hyacinth from a Gillikin province named Up Town as the new rulers of the Gillikins.
Glinda, along with her other good witch counterpart, appear in a little-known 1995 version of The Wizard of Oz made for British television. After the defeat of the Wicked Witch of the West, she reveals to Dorothy (
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 the enchanted Queen Orin took her title under the name of Tattypoo. Hardenbrook's novel outlines Locasta's return to the Land of Oz.[2]
In
Wicked
Both
The Wiz
In William F. Brown and Charlie Smalls's Broadway hit, The Wiz, the Good Witch of the North is named "Addaperle". She is portrayed by Clarice Taylor. Amber Riley played the role 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.
Animation
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 young, Glinda (Wendy Thatcher) refers to the Good Witch of the North as her sister.
The
She makes no appearance in the Disney film Oz the Great and Powerful because this film has Glinda as the Good Witch of the South.
Television
The "Witch of the North", played by Karen Holness, makes an appearance in the third season of Once Upon a Time. She is initially a good witch, helping out Glinda as part of the Sisterhood 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 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 two Wicked Witches). Miss Piggy's other role was herself. Prior to Dorothy's return, she appears with Kermit and tries to get rid of Dorothy. After Dorothy's return, she returns for the Muppets' show. Unlike the original version, North gets an angry Dorothy snapping at her for making her go on a pointless journey; since the slippers were how Dorothy could go home the whole time.
Novel
In the 2014 novel Dorothy Must Die, by Danielle Paige, former Good Witch of the North Gert is a member of the Order of the Wicked.
References
- ^ Jack Snow, Who's Who in Oz, Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988; p. 80.
- ^ Hardenbrook Dave (2003). OZ / NONESTICA FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS, Nonestica -- The Online Oz Fan Club!