The Wicked Witch of Oz
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Preceded by | The Ozmapolitan of Oz | |
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Followed by | The Giant Garden of Oz |
The Wicked Witch of Oz is a novel by Rachel Cosgrove Payes. Written in the early 1950s but not published until four decades later, the book is a volume in the series of Oz books by L. Frank Baum and his successors.[1][2][3]
Cosgrove Payes had published her first Oz book,
Synopsis
The title character is Singra, the Wicked Witch of the South. She awakens after sleeping for a century; her Magical Musical Snuffbox informs her of all the events she has missed in the last hundred years. Armed with this knowledge, Singra sets out to brew a spell of revenge against
Singra waylays the
Dorothy is aided by Percy, a giant talking white rat — a character that Cosgrove Payes introduced in The Hidden Valley of Oz. In their efforts, they encounter a rubber band (that is, a band of rubber musicians), and an animated neon man named Leon — Leon the Neon. The trio of Dorothy, Percy, and Leon confront a giant beehive, and Dorothy and Percy take flight on hummingbird wings. Singra enchants Dorothy into a statue, but her friends,
References
- ^ Paul Nathanson, Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America, Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1991.
- ^ Suzanne Rahn, The Wizard of Oz: Shaping an Imaginary World, New York, Twayne, 1998.
- ^ Michael O'Neal Riley, Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum, Lawrence, KS, University Press of Kansas, 1997, page 238.
- ISBN 978-1-47210-988-0. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ Eric Shanower, "The Wicked Witch, the Runaway, and Me," The Baum Bugle, Vol.45 No. 3 (Winter 2001), pp. 13-23.
External links
- On The Wicked Witch of Oz
- The Wicked Witch of Oz title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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