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1.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Contributors:
Publisher:
Books of Wonder; William Morrow 1990
Subjects:
Fantasy literature
Fiction
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...Glinda tells us that "the Wizard of Oz, when hestole the throne...But in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Ozma tells the Wizardthat the wicked witch Mombi was "my grandfather...Nomention is made here of the Wizard's involvement in herabduction...
2.
Confessions of "The Old Wizard"': Autobiography
Contributors:
Publisher:
The Riverside Press 1956
Subjects:
Finance--Germany
Germany--Economic Conditions--1918-1945
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were. I was rather scared of the old woman, for outwardly she wasjust like the picture of the witch in the fairy tales. But occasionallycuriosity proved too much for me. So it happened that I saw herone day eating her supper...
3.
The Meaning of the Witch of Atlas
Contributors:
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press 1935
Subjects:
English Poetry--Criticism and Interpretiona
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. the Witch of Atlas
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...of the divine archetypes.The "cavern's fountain-lighted roof" embodies a sym­bolism now familiar. Therein the Wizard Lady spells out"scrolls of dread antiquity" or she embroiders "some high taleupon her growing woof." The "dread antiquity...
4.
Witch Hunt: The Revival of Heresy
Contributors:
Publisher:
Little, Brown 1950
Subjects:
Allegiance--United States
Civil Rights--United States
Communism--United States--1917-
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...when related tothe confession of the witch, created the perfect illusion of...suspect half wishes that he werea witch or wizard. The confession doubtless voices...identifi­cation. Or, again, the witch may be genuinely deluded; shemay...
5.
Embracing the Witch and the Goddess: Feminist Ritual-Makers in New Zealand
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 2003
Subjects:
Witchcraft--New Zealand
Magic--New Zealand
Goddess Religion--New Zealand
Neopaganism--New Zealand
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...near the beginning of her ethnography, ‘I am no witch, no wizard, though I have been initiated as though I were’...quite unequivocal in stating that she did not become a witch in the course of her study. She joined a coven and participated...
6.
The Salem Witch Crisis
Contributors:
Publisher:
Praeger 1992
Subjects:
Trials (Witchcraft)--Salem, Mass
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...early fall of 1692. Upon a suspected witch's conviction, WilliamStoughton issued...whateveryone knew to be true, that she was a witch. Good replied, "You area liar; I am no more a witch than you are a wizard." Further, she taunted,"If you...
7.
The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales
Contributors:
Publisher:
Basic Books 1999
Subjects:
Fairy Tales--Psychological Aspects
Fairy Tales--History And Criticism
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...helpyou.""What must I do?" asked the girl."Kill the Wicked Witch of the West," answered Oz.The Wizard's command--the witch must die--is the driving forcein The Wizard of Oz and propels the story to its inevitable conclusion.Dorothy...
9.
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
Contributors:
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf 1949
Subjects:
Trials (Witchcraft)--Salem, Mass
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...and these judges would not con­demn to death an unborn child even though it was begot­ten by a wizard on the body of a witch. Elizabeth, con­demned with the others, was given a stay of executionuntil the baby came, and Procter...
10.
The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 1996
Subjects:
Witchcraft--History
Witchcraft In Literature
Witchcraft in Art
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...cruel meanings. Baum’s Wizard of Oz thus became for a time my own witch-story, shaped by me to present...investments in the figure of the witch, trying to tell or retell the...three groups, revealing the witch herself to be a created myth...
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