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Sympathy for Sympathetic Magic

Into the Windwracked Wilds, by A. Deborah Baker – The third book in the Up-and-Under series sees Avery, Ziv, the Crow Girl, and the Drowned Girl Niamh continuing their journey. This includes their getting swallowed by a mosasaur, who is … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Animism, Authors, Christianity, Fundamentalism, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, seanan mcguire, up-and-under | Tagged a. deborah baker, aeneas, aeneid, anthropology, apocalypse, armageddon, baldur, bart ehrman, bible, gospels, human sacrifice, into the windwracked wilds, jesus, joseph campbell, mistletoe, patrick maund, revelation, ritual, robert graves, robert pattrick, sacrifice, seasonal fears, sibyl, sir james george frazer, the golden bough, underworld, unexplored territory in oz, virgil |

Sorting Out Sorcery

One running theme in Glinda of Oz is that there are several different types of magic in Oz, all of which have their specialties, but none of them can do everything. L. Frank Baum contrasts the fairy magic of Ozma … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Characters, Etymology, Games, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Theosophy | Tagged abrog, akbad, belfaygor, blinkie, conjo, cookywitches, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dr. pipt, dungeons and dragons, fanny the weather witch, flatheads, gayelette, glinda, glinda and the red jinn, glinda of oz, good witch of the north, gorba, grampa in oz, great book of records, gwig, handy mandy in oz, imperial squawmos, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kadj the conjurer, krumbic witch, magicians, mangaboos, miserable mesmerizer, mombi, mooj, necromancers, ojo in oz, oz magic, oziana, ozma, ozwoz, paul dana, peter brown, pirates in oz, potaroo, prophecy, queen coo-ee-oh, red jinn, robert pattrick, rora flathead, soob the sorcerer, soothsayers, sorcerers, speedy in oz, supreme dictator of the flatheads, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the runaway in oz, the scarecrow of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, three adepts at magic, ugu the shoemaker, unexplored territory in oz, waddy, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, wizards, wozards, wumbo, yookoohoos |

Snow Business

I was aware from pretty early on that Ruth Plumly Thompson continued the Oz series after L. Frank Baum, and that illustrator John R. Neill would eventually write his own as well. I don’t think I’d heard of the fourth … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged bzzzantium, cap'n bill, chapter three, father goose, flittermouse, fred meyer, gillikin river, good witch of the north, into the cave, james e. haff, merry go round in oz, over the rainbow to oz, oziana, polychrome, shaggy man, the baum bugle, the crystal people, the magical mimics in oz, the rundelstone of oz, the shaggy man of oz, toto, unexplored territory in oz, who's who in oz |

Books Within Books

One of Robert Pattrick’s essays in Unexplored Territory in Oz, “Books in Oz,” discusses just what it sounds like. It’s interesting to examine what books characters IN books read. Since fantasy adventure stories often don’t have a lot of down … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged book of royalty, book trees, bookman, books in oz, bookville, grampa in oz, jeremy steadman, kabumpo in oz, king ato, king fumbo of ragbad, margaret berg, ojo in oz, pirates in oz, princess gureeda, private jo files, rhyming dictionary, rith metic, robert pattrick, roger the read bird, speedy in oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the reading tree of oz, the road to oz, the winged monkeys of oz, the wonder city of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok of oz, unexplored territory in oz |

Everything But the Kitchen Sink in Oz

It often seems to be the case that people who read Oz books by authors other than L. Frank Baum when they were young accept them as official, while those who read them later are a little more wary of … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged continuity, famous forty, fanfiction, james thurber, joe bongiorno, maud gage baum, mrs. yoop, nome king, oz vs authors, patrick maund, robert pattrick, royal timeline of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway in oz, the rundelstone of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, unexplored territory in oz |

Immortal Redundancy

Robert Pattrick makes a point in Unexplored Territory in Oz about immortals in L. Frank Baum’s fantasy world who appear to have overlapping functions. In The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, we’re told that the crooked Knooks have the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Comics, Eric Shanower, Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged animal fairy tales, fairies, fairy beavers, hank the mule, immortals, john dough and the cherub, knooks, light elves, lulea, lurline, mermaids, nymphs, pittypat the rabbit, princess clia, queen erma, queen zixi of ix, robert pattrick, ryls, the enchanted island of yew, the life and adventures of santa claus, the road to oz, the sea fairies, tiger fairies, tik-tok of oz, tititi-hoochoo, unexplored territory in oz |

Calendar Clues

We don’t know a whole lot about how the Ozian calendar works, but it does appear that the months are the same as ours, as indicated with Jack Pumpkinhead’s tombstones in The Road to Oz. Ruth Plumly Thompson was particularly … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged henry blossom, jack pumpkinhead, jeremy steadman, lurline, narnia, nome king, ozzy digest, peter brown, pirates in oz, prince bobo, rinkitink in oz, robert pattrick, robin hess, the blue emperor of oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the gnome king of oz, the magic mirror of oz, the road to oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tir na nog, toto and the cats of oz, travelers' trees, tyler jones, unexplored territory in oz, wam, zim greenleaf |

Back in the High Life Again

Robert R. Pattrick’s Unexplored Territory in Oz was a seminal work in the field sometimes known as Ozian Research, which is basically research that treats the Oz books as true history rather than fiction. Not a very practical field of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged benny, bunnybury, captain fyter, chopfyt, cowardly lion, donkeys, dorothy gale, dunkiton, forever in oz, good witch of the north, grumpy, jikki, kiki aru, king gugu, law of association, law of similarity, loo the unicorn, magic, merry go round, merry go round in oz, professor wogglebug, queen zixi of ix, robert pattrick, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the magic of oz, the road to oz, tin woodman, unexplored territory in oz, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer, zim greenleaf |

Lurline When?

As a follow-up to last week’s post on Oz timeline issues, here’s another one, dealing with Lurline‘s enchantment. We know from The Tin Woodman of Oz that the Fairy Queen enchanted the country to make it a fairyland, and left … Continue reading →

Posted in Edward Einhorn, L. Frank Baum, Marcus Mebes, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged glinda of oz, jeremy steadman, lurline, lurline and the white ravens of oz, mombi, ozana, ozma, paradox in oz, pastoria, robert pattrick, samandra, the emerald ring of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the yellow knight of oz, unexplored territory in oz, wizard of oz |