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Burning Up for Your Love

We watched three movies this weekend, and here are my thoughts, complete with SPOILERS. Mister Organ – Directed by David Farrier, the guy who made Tickled, this is a similar documentary in that it’s about an investigation into someone who … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Health, Humor, Prejudice, Relationships, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged classical elements, david bowe, david farrier, elemental, elementals, immigration, mental illness, michael organ, mister organ, paracelsus, peter sohn, pixar, quentin dupleux, rubber |

She’s Come Undine

I keep forgetting to write something about the novella Undine, by German author Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, which I read on Gutenberg in a translation geared toward children. I’ve become somewhat fascinated with the influence of Paracelsus‘ concept of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Celtic, Characters, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, German, Greek Mythology, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Religion, They Might Be Giants, Video Games | Tagged bertalda, blue men of the minch, brothers grimm, cap'n bill, elementals, fossegrim, friedrich de la motte fouque, hans christian andersen, huldbrand, immortals, john flansburgh, kelpies, kuhleborn, mermaids, nixies, nokks, nymphs, ondine, paracelsus, queen of the water sprites, sirens, souls, stromkarlen, the life and adventures of santa claus, the little mermaid, the nixie of the mill-pond, the sea fairies, trot griffiths, undine, undines, vampires, water sprites |

Fair Value

Beneath the Sugar Sky, by Seanan McGuire – The third book in the Wayward Children series follows up on the first. A girl named Rini arrives at Eleanor West’s home, looking for her mother Onishi Sumi, who had been murdered. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Economics, Fairy Tales, Families, Food, History, incryptid, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire, Wayward Children | Tagged beneath the sugar sky, christina rossetti, chupacabra, demons, dio de muertos, elementals, elves, fairies, folklore, goblin market, in an absent dream, la llorona, paolo santiago and the river of tears, paracelsus, rick riordan presents, ronald hutton, satan, tehlor kay mejia, the witch, tricks for free, undines, witches |

Ariel View

I’ve looked at quite a bit of fairy lore over the years, but one character I hadn’t really addressed is Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, largely because I hadn’t read it. I recently did so, and I also found out that … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, British, C.S. Lewis, Cartoons, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Futurama, Gender, Greek Mythology, Humor, Jasper Fforde, Judaism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Nursery Crime, Oz, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Roman, Television, Theosophy, William Shakespeare | Tagged a midsummer night's dream, alexander pope, angels, ariel, belinda, bible, caliban, demons, elementals, fairies, gnomes, hans christian andersen, isaiah, j. l. bell, john milton, king lear, lucifer, mermaids, nomes, oberon, paracelsus, paradise lost, philip j. fry, prospero, rosicrucianism, sycorax, sylphs, the fourth bear, the little mermaid, the rape of the lock, the tempest, titania, umbriel, uranus, uriel, witches |

War Between the States of Being

Erica Olivera’s presentation on Theosophy and its influence on L. Frank Baum at the latest OzCon included some information on the four kingdoms, those of mineral, vegetable, animal, and human. The animal-vegetable-mineral division is part of general knowledge, as well … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Animals, Biology, Characters, Christianity, Evolution, Greek Philosophy, History, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Prejudice, Religion, Science, Snobbery, Theosophy | Tagged angels, aristotle, carl linnaeus, charles darwin, cowardly lion, creationism, dick tater, dorothy gale, elementals, erica olivera, great chain of being, helena blavatsky, hierarchy, immortals, kingdoms, mangaboos, march of progress, minerals, morality, nome king, nomes, orthogenesis, paracelsus, plants, prince bobo, racial evolution, racism, return to oz, rinkitink in oz, scarecrow, taxonomy, the scalawagons of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, tottenhots, transformation, twenty questions, vegetable kingdom, zoology |

The Cake Is a Li-Mon-Eag

I’m back from my fourth OzCon International, and the second to which I dragged Beth. She asked me why I wanted to her go when it’s not something she’s into, but I like having the company and sharing my passions. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Characters, Eric Shanower, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Prejudice, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Theosophy | Tagged aljean harmetz, buddy ebsen, cap'n bill, colin ayres, david hall, dee masters, dina schiff massachi, dorothy and the wizard of oz, dorothy gale, dustin ebsen, eleanor kern, elementals, erica olivera, fred woodward, glinda, gump, hank the mule, holly van leuven, j. l. bell, karaoke, kiki aru, kiki ebsen, kurt raymond, li-mon-eags, lonesome duck, lost in oz, lynn beltz, mike chamberlin, neil cuadra, nome king, nomes, ojo, ozcon international, ozma, ozroy good, paracelsus, peter kern, racism, ray bolger, raymond wohl, ruth cuadra, sam milazzo, shawn maldonado, susan hall, susan johnson, the magic of oz, the tik-tok man of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), tin woodman, trot griffiths, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz |

Gnomic Utterances

I recently read Ruth Berman’s Dunkiton Pamphlet on Gnome Matters, including a history of gnomes, touching on their use in the Oz books. I’ve written about this topic before, like how the name might well have originated with Paracelsus, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Chris Dulabone, Eric Shanower, Fairy Tales, German, Gina Wickwar, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bucketheads in oz, delves, demons, dunkiton press, edward r. blanchard, elementals, enilrul, eva katharine gibson, fairies, fire fairies, frank joslyn baum, gnome king, gnome matters, gnomes, gnomides, goblins, gold panners, goldemar, greg hunter, isabel johnston, j. l. bell, jimmy bulber of oz, joe bongiorno, julia brown, kaliko, knarls, margaret berg, nome king, nomes, number-nip, nymphs, paracelsus, polychrome, quar, royal timeline of oz, rubezahl, ruth berman, sherwood smith, the emerald city mirror, the enchanted gnome of oz, the gnome king and the good fairy of the silver mine, the hidden prince of oz, the jeweled toad, the life and adventures of santa claus, the purple prince of oz, the reading tree of oz, the three threads, the tik-tok man of oz, the witch queen of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, w. w. denslow, william brough, zauberlinda the wise witch |

Know Your Gnomes

I’ve been looking into the portrayal of various mythical peoples in works of fiction, and it seems to me that some are much better defined than others. I asked earlier today on Twitter and Facebook what people thought of when … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Fairy Tales, Games, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Piers Anthony, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Xanth | Tagged bism, david bowie, deep-elves, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, elementals, elves, fairies, george macdonald, gnomes, goblins, j.m. barrie, jareth, kabumpo in oz, labyrinth, matiah, noldor, nome king, nomes, orcs, ozma of oz, paracelsus, peter pan, pirates in oz, polychrome, salamanders, sherwood smith, silmarils, the emerald city of oz, the hobbit, the princess and the goblin, the road to oz, the silver chair, the wishing horse of oz, tinker bell |

Nome Magic at All

One item that’s somewhat inconsistent throughout the Oz series (now THERE’S a shock, right?) is how much magic power the Nomes have. In The Emerald City of Oz, General Guph tells Roquat, “Nomes are immortals, but they are not strong … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bungle the glass cat, coregos, dorothy gale, fairies, gnomes, immortals, kabumpo in oz, kaliko, king gos of regos, magic belt, magic spyglass, nome king, nomes, ozga, ozma of oz, paracelsus, pigasus, pirates in oz, potaroo, queen cor of coregos, quox, regos, rikiki, rinkitink in oz, ruggedo and the school of magic, ruggedo in oz, scott dickerson, shaggy man, sherwood smith, the emerald city of oz, the emerald wand of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tik-tok of oz, tititi-hoochoo, who's who in oz |

Celsus and Paracelsus

I’ve already discussed Paracelsus in connection with his belief in elementals, but there was more to him than that. I suppose he was what would be considered a Renaissance man, with interests ranging from medicine to astrology and alchemy. While … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical Personages, History, Medicine, Renaissance, Roman Empire, Science | Tagged alchemy, astrology, aulus cornelius celsus, galen, hermeticism, laudanum, mercury, paracelsus, syphilis, zinc |