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Mombi is a fictional character in L. Frank Baum's classic children's series of Oz Books. [1] She is the most significant antagonist in the second Oz book The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), and is alluded to in other works. Mombi plays a very important role in the fictional history of Oz.
Mombi first appears The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), when Tip escapes her power. Later in the series, L. Frank Baum specified that she had once conquered and ruled the Gillikin Country as the Wicked Witch of the North only to be deposed by Locasta, the Good Witch of the North .
The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, [1] published in July 1904, [2] is the second book in L. Frank Baum's Oz series, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).
When Tip's witch guardian Mombi threatens to granitize him, Tip evades Mombi and flees to the Emerald City with his recently-animated companion, Jack Pumpkinhead.Along the way, he meets up with General Jinjur, leader of the Army of Revolt, who imprisons Tip and marches her troops to take over the Emerald City.
The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relates the fictional history of the Land of Oz.Oz was created by author L. Frank Baum, who went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books. [1]
Toto chases a cat to a small cottage where Dorothy is captured by Mombi's pet crow (voiced by Mel Blanc) and Mombi (voiced by Ethel Merman) herself. Pumpkinhead sneaks into the house in Mombi's absence, and discovers her creation of green elephants, to use as her army to conquer the Emerald City. Pumpkinhead frees Dorothy, and they flee.
Dorothy steals the powder from Mombi to construct a flying creature from furniture and the head of the Gump, a moose-like animal, which flies them across the Deadly Desert to the Nome King's mountain, pursued by Mombi and the Wheelers. The Gump eventually crashes on the mountain, where Dorothy is briefly reunited with Scarecrow, before the Nome ...
As an infant, she was given to the witch Mombi of the North by the Wizard of Oz. Mombi transformed Ozma into a boy and called him "Tip" (short for Tippetarius) in order to prevent the rightful ruler of Oz from ascending to the throne. Ozma spent her entire childhood with Mombi in the form of the boy Tip and had no memory of ever having been a girl.