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It Payes to Have Personality

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Nathan

Hiya, kiddos! I’ve done some more rereading recently, so today I’ll be going over the Oz work of Rachel Cosgrove Payes, the fifth official Royal Historian of Oz. The Hidden Valley of Oz – The next-to-last in what I suppose … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ray Powell, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Toys | Tagged adventures in oz, betsy bobbin, bookville, collapsible kite, cowardly lion, dirk gringhuis, dorothy gale, equinots, flicker, flowers, giants, guardian of the muffin tree, guinea pigs, henry blossom, herbertha the herb lady, hidden valley, hungry tiger, icetown, international wizard of oz club, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jellia jamb, jessamine, jonathan andrew manley, kenneth gage baum, kites, kizzo, lake lavendra, leon the neon, leopard with the changing spots, leopards, nome king, oz-story magazine, oziana, ozma, percy and the shrinking violet, percy the personality kid, pinny and gig, rats, reilly & lee, rocket trip to oz, scarecrow, shrinking violets, singra, snowmen, spots in oz, terp the terrible, the blue emperor of oz, the dinamonster of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the ice king of oz, the raggedys in oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, violetta, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the south, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, yankee in oz | 2 Comments

You Will Be Assimilated

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Nathan

It’s become a cliché in the Oz series that the magical land is full of insular themed communities where the inhabitants either want to turn visitors into beings like them, or sometimes just keep them as slaves. In Ruth Plumly … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged benny, blankenburg, bookville, bunbury, cave city, chimneyville, china country, clockwise, crystal city, david perry, delves, dogs, double up, gapers, good children, headland, hummingbirds, icetown, jack pott, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kabumpo, monday mountain, ojo, patch, patchwork girl, peter brown, play, pokes, preservatory, rith metic, round-abouties, scare city, scarecrow, sir hokus of pokes, spiders, stair way, suds, the giant horse of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the wicked witch of oz, thi, tidy town, tin woodman, turn town, view-halloo, wyndups | 4 Comments

Who Has Seen the Wind?

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Nathan

In classical mythology, most natural phenomena were either personified themselves or seen as the tools of a deity, if not both. The winds were no exception, and in Greco-Roman mythology, there were four of them. I’m no meteorologist, but can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Mythology, Heroes of Olympus, Mythology, Oz, Religion, Rick Riordan | Tagged aeolus, anemoi, apollo, astraeos, astraeus, bible, boreas, calais, chloris, cleopatra, east wind, eos, euros, eurus, four winds, frank joslyn baum, gigantes, gospels, harpies, helios, horses, hyacinthus, hyperborea, icetown, irenaeus, iris, khione, north wind, notos, notus, odysseus, odyssey, old man winter, oreithyia of athens, pausanias, podarge, rachel cosgrove payes, rosine, snowmen, south wind, swift v. breezy, the hidden valley of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the lost hero, thrace, titans, venti, winds, zephyros, zephyrus, zetes | 15 Comments

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