Glinda the Good Witch viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government and, ultimately, Elphaba's public fall from grace. Glinda the Good Witch Glinda, also known as the Good Witch of the South, is a fictional character created by L. Frank Baum in his "Oz" novels. She first appears in Baum's classic children's novel, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900), and is the most powerful sorceress in the Land of Oz, ruler of the Quadling Country south of the Emerald City, and protector of Princess Ozma. Baum's 1900 children's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" refers to Glinda as the
His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz it back on. (The Wicked Witch of the East in "The Tin Woodman of Oz" is later described as having done a similar thing to him when he was still human.) Having replaced her head, Mombi encounters Pon and turns him into a kangaroo. Dorothy, Button-Bright, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman escape from Mombi by crossing a river on a raft. As in the original novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900), the Scarecrow's barge-pole gets stuck in the river bed and leaves him stranded, until he is rescued by a bird. At one point in this sequence, the