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A Few Bad Fairies

It’s been established that fairies in mythology and folklore can be either good or bad, and in fact are often amoral. In L. Frank Baum’s fantasy, however, fairies are pretty much always good. When he wrote about the Immortals in … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eric Shanower, Fairy Tales, Fred Otto, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged ak, audia, burzee, California, celestia, claudia, dubra, emerald city, enilrul, fairies, faleero, falingo, flying cloak of invisibility, follensby forest, fraudia, gigans, gnomes, groves of trom, hallita, immortals, jack frost, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, kettywig, king randywell, knooks, lurline, mildred l. palmer, necile, nelanthe, nelebel, nelebel's fairyland, nomes, nymphs, ozma, patchwork girl, pumperdink, rimmers, ryls, scarecrow, the banishment of faleero, the forgotten forest of oz, the invisible fairy of oz, the king who changed his mind, the life and adventures of santa claus, the master crafters of oz, the purple prince of oz, the red jinn in oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the witch queen of oz, tippetarius in oz, water of oblivion, witches |

Duchess, Duchess, Duchess, Put All the Love Back in Me

When Charles Dodgson (better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll) expanded his original Alice’s Adventures Under Ground manuscript for publication as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, he added some characters who have become quite famous, including the Cheshire Cat, the Mad … Continue reading →

Posted in Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, alice's adventures under ground, charles kingsley, duchess of wonderland, grampa in oz, john goldthwaite, kabumpo, kettywig, margaretha maultasch, morals, the natural history of make-believe, the purple prince of oz, the water-babies |