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Deadwood Oaks and Duende

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Nathan

I feel like I’ve pretty much exhausted all the Oz books, or at least the ones that are generally consistent with the original series (not that everyone even agrees on what that is). I’ll occasionally come across lists of interesting-sounding … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, March Laumer, Marcus Mebes, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged a million miles from here is oz, alexander volkov, cap'n bill, dagmar in oz, david f. salas, deadwood oaks, dorothy and the wooden soldiers of oz, dorothy gale, duende, fairies, fighting trees, glinda, hammer-heads, ken romer, lucky bucky in oz, magic land, nome king, polychrome, quiet victory, robin hess, the deadly desert around oz, the duende of oz, the lost tales of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the spelling bee of oz, three-headed elvis clone found in flying saucer over oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, urfin jus, urfin jus and his wooden soldiers, victor columbia edison, wicked witch of the east | Leave a comment

If I Only Had a Game

Posted on August 13, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve long thought Oz had a lot of potential for video games, but it hasn’t had much success in that respect. One game I knew existed but hadn’t played or anything was the 1993 The Wizard of Oz for Super … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Characters, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Video Games | Tagged alexander volkov, angry video game nerd, cats, cowardly lion, crows, dogs, dorothy gale, emerald city, emerald city confidential, glinda, grampa in oz, magic land, mice, munchkins, queen of the field-mice, scarecrow, super nintendo entertainment system, the wizard of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, topiary, toto, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, yellow brick road | Leave a comment

Iron Constitutions

Posted on June 20, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve been looking a bit into witches, and I latched onto one physical trait the Russian Baba Yaga is sometimes said to have, which is iron teeth. Such teeth seem to be associated with witches in general in Slavic lore. … Continue reading →

Posted in African, British, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Finnish, German, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Russian, Slavic, Technology | Tagged alexander volkov, asanbosam, baba yaga, bronze, demons, dorothy gale, giants, ilmarinen, iron, iron woodman, ivashko, kalevala, magic land, ogres, perchta, prince ivan the witch baby and the little sister of the sun, psoglav, sasabonsam, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, vampires, wicked witch of the west, witches | Leave a comment

We Are Family

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Nathan

This post on the Merry Old Land of Oz Facebook group got me thinking about how most of the kids who visit Oz tend to be only children. Okay, to be fair, it’s possible they have siblings we don’t know … Continue reading →

Posted in Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Dick Martin, Families, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged acinad, alexander volkov, allison mcbain, annie smith, aunt em, betsy bobbin, button-bright, cap'n bill, cap'n bob, christmas in oz, clarence skillet, cory in oz, donald abbott, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, ellie smith, frank joslyn baum, fumaro, general riskitt, glinda, glinda of oz, greg hunter, guardian of the gates, handy mandy, how the wizard saved oz, jack pumpkinhead, jeff freedman, jellia jamb, joe weedles, kabina, kabumpo, lucky bucky in oz, magic land, margolotte, mombi, nine tiny piglets, nome king, notta bit more, number nine, omby amby, ozma, ozmapolitan, pastoria, patchwork girl, paul dana, pinny and gig, polychrome, prince philador, queen ann soforth, robin hess, salye soforth, scarecrow, septimius septentrion, shaggy man, tales of magic land, the enchanted gnome of oz, the giant horse of oz, the goat girls of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the magic dishpan of oz, the mysterious pool of oz, the other searches for the lost princess of oz, the ozampolitan of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), three adepts, tik-tok of oz, time-travelling in oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, twink and tom jones, uncle henry, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Never Enough Oz

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Nathan

Lost Lands of Oz: The Rain King Is Missing, by Dr. Janet Kelly – This book is intended to teach values to kids, and as an adult reading for fun, I can’t say how successful it is in that respect. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Games, Humor, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Sports | Tagged ak, alexander volkov, benny, betsy bobbin, button-bright, captain fyter, cayke the cookie cook, dorothy gale, frogman, ghosts, gingema's daughter, handy mandy, herby, janet kelly, jinjur, kamui ayami, lost lands of oz, maggie greenleaf, nomes, notta bit more, owls, ozma, perry, peter blystone, professor wogglebug, rain king, sergei sukhinov, superb owl, tales of magic land, tales of the emerald city, the haunted castle of oz, the rain king is missing, the superb owl of oz, tin woodman, tommy kwikstep, trot griffiths, wicked witch of the east, winged monkeys, witches, zim greenleaf | 4 Comments

Something to Crow About

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Nathan

I probably should start making a list of topics I’ve covered before. There are some broad topics I frequently return to, but when I end up with things like two separate but similar posts about the Egyptian scorpion goddess Serqet, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Dick Martin, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alexander volkov, bandit jim crow, corvids, crows, cryptid conversations in a cornfield, dorothy and old king crow, dorothy haas, faleero, grampa, grampa in oz, his majesty the scarecrow of oz, jim crow, kaggi-karr, kiki aru, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, magic land, magpies, margaret berg, old king crow, oziana, ozma, racism, ravens, scarecrow, septimius septentrion, the emerald city of oz, the magic of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the mysterious chronicles of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the scarecrow and the tin woodman, the wonderful wizard of oz, twinkle tales | 1 Comment

Zeebee and ze Bee

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Nathan

The Spelling Bee of Oz, by Robin Hess – The follow-up to Toto and the Cats of Oz has two new visitors to the fairyland. Elizabeth Warren from California, or Zeebee for short, is captured by the Nome King Korph, … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged alexander volkov, crows, dorothy and old king crow, dorothy and the seven-leaf clover, dorothy haas, hip-po-gy-raf, joe bongiorno, kalidahs, magic land, ozma, robin hess, royal timeline of oz, scarecrow, spelling bee, the spelling bee of oz, toto, toto and the cats of oz | 5 Comments

This Tornado Loves You

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Nathan

There was a bit of a theme in the early Oz books about Dorothy reaching fairyland by means of natural disasters. We all know about the cyclone, then there was a storm at sea in Ozma of Oz and an … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alexander volkov, betsy bobbin, cap'n bill, cyclones, dorothy and the wizard in oz, earthquakes, glinda, good witch of the north, hurricanes, jeremy steadman, laura jane musser, lurline, magic land, michael patrick hearn, natural disasters, nome king, onsi, oziana, ozma of oz, peter brown, pirates in oz, prince pompadore in oz, sky island, storms, tales of magic land, the annotated wizard of oz, the gnome king of oz, the romance of the silver shoes, the scarecrow of oz, the sea fairies, the witch queen of oz, the wizard of the emerald city, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, time in oz, tompy terry, tornadoes, trot griffiths, weather, whirlpools, wicked witch of the east, yankee in oz | 5 Comments

Sorcerous Servitude

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Nathan

I don’t know where the idea of supernatural beings assisting magicians originated, but perhaps the most prominent example are the jinn that will serve anyone who releases them from bottles. King Solomon is said to have had a ring that … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Atticus Gannaway, Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adam nicolai, aladdin, alexander volkov, dearest mother, demon of electricity, demons, dinner bell, gayelette, ginger, gludwig and the red hair, golden cap, handy mandy in oz, himself the elf, imps, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jikki, jinn, johnny dooit, kabumpo, king solomon, opodock, queen zixi of ix, red jinn, silver hammer, the disenchanted princess of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the master key, the queen of quok, the road to oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the silver princess in oz, the silver sorceress of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, torpedo town, torpedodo, whistles, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches, wunchie, yankee in oz | 1 Comment

Names for the Nameless

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Nathan

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, there aren’t that many characters with proper names. Even the ones who do have them tend not to have last names. The stage play gave Dorothy a last name and the Tin Woodman a … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Fred Otto, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Peter Clarke, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adam nicolai, alexander volkov, aunt em, captain fyter, cayke the cookie cook, charles phipps, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, dot and tot of merryland, dr. pipt, eric gjovaag, fairy beavers, frogman, good witch of the north, guardian of the gates, henry blossom, hungry tiger, james howe, jim vander noot, john dough and the cherub, kalidahs, karyl carlson, lin carter, mark haas, names, nine tiny piglets, paul dana, queen zixi of ix, rob roy macveigh, scarecrow, shaggy man, the emerald city of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the road to oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, uncle henry, wam, winged monkeys, wizard of oz | 6 Comments

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