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Lions Are a Beast’s Best King

I might as well move on with my Oziana reread to the 1982 issue, which has a rather more abstract and stylized cover than earlier ones. It has a picture of the Cowardly Lion and a mountain inside a larger … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a day in oz, ben p. indick, billina, blorgens, cowardly lion, david ingersoll, dorothy gale, edith ellen reuwer, fairies, glenn ingersoll, herby the medicine man, jay delkin, jenny jump, kim mcfarland, labor of love, magic fan, nelebel, nelebel's fairyland, omby amby, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, professor wogglebug, rob roy macveigh, scarecrow, the change made by the magic turnstyle, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the scarecrow's appreciation day, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, turn-style, wizard of oz |

Ask the Flowers to Tell You

Yesterday was L. Frank Baum’s birthday, and Tuesdays are my designated days for writing about Oz, although it doesn’t always work out that way. Since I had something more pressing to write about yesterday, I’m going to look at a … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Magic, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ray Powell, Roman, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, burzee, chloris, fairies, favonius, flora, floralia, flower fairies, flowers, grampa in oz, immortals, karpos, king of the ryls, knooks, nelebel's fairyland, nymphs, ozga, prince marvel, prince of the ryls, rose kingdom, ryls, santa claus, tanko-mankie, the dummy that lived, the enchanted island of yew, the enchanted types, the gardener's boy of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the raggedys in oz, the road to oz, the ryl, the ryl of the lilies, the vegetable man of oz, the yellow ryl, tik-tok of oz, urtha, zephyrus |

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 |

Looking for Oz in All the Wrong Places

Where is Oz located? Of course, Oz isn’t really anywhere, being a made-up country, but what fun is that? L. Frank Baum wrote of Oz as being just as real as the United States, or whatever other country a reader … Continue reading →

Posted in Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alexander volkov, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, grampa in oz, john dough and the cherub, lucky bucky in oz, magic land, merry go round in oz, nelebel's fairyland, ozma of oz, pillars of hercules, pirates in oz, scarecrow, speedy in oz, the enchanted island of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the royal book of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, wizard of oz, yankee in oz |

Santa’s Ho-Ho-Home Turf

When L. Frank Baum wrote about Santa Claus, he was describing a distinctly American figure, but one who was American by way of Europe. The fat, jolly, bearded man in the red suit who slid down chimneys to give gifts … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Christmas, Holidays, Oz, Places | Tagged baron braun, forest of burzee, l. frank baum, laughing valley of hohaho, lord of lerd, lulea, nelebel's fairyland, odin, queen zixi of ix, santa claus, st. nicholas, the king who changed his mind, the life and adventures of santa claus, the queen of quok, the runaway shadows, the witchcraft of mary-marie, thumbumbia, tik-tok of oz, turkey |

The Lay of Lurline

Although she never appears on stage in the canonical Oz books and does so only sparingly in apocryphal ones, the Fairy Queen Lurline is an important part of the universe in that The Tin Woodman of Oz identifies her as … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Oz | Tagged a fairy queen of oz, burzee, cap'n bill, clemens brentano, echo, fairies, heinrich heine, jack snow, l. frank baum, lorelei, lulea, lurline, march laumer, mermaids, nelebel's fairyland, nymphs, queen zixi of ix, rhine river, sirens, the enchanted island of yew, the life and adventures of santa claus, the magical mimics in oz, the sea fairies, trot, william vincent wallace, zurline |