Monday, October 29, 2012

AS SEEN ON TV: MOMBI


MOMBI THE WITCH

AS SEEN IN:
'Shirley Temple Storybook'
"The Land Of Oz"

CREATED BY:
L. Frank Baum

PORTRAYED BY:
Agnes Moorehead

TV STATUS:
Recastaway
(TV Original)

TV DIMENSION:
Oz


From Wikipedia:
Mombi is a fictional character in L. Frank Baum's "Oz Books". She appears and is the main antagonist in the book "The Marvelous Land of Oz" and is alluded to in other works. Of all the wicked witches in L. Frank Baum's "Oz" series, Mombi is by far the most significant, considering the role she played in the "history" of Oz.

The character was originally presented as a lowly hag who had enchanted Princess Ozma in order to prevent her from ascending to the throne. 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 the Good Witch of the North.

Furthermore, Mombi had enslaved Ozma's father (King Pastoria) and grandfather, thereby removing the Royal Family of Oz, and enabling herself and the Witches of the East, West and South to conquer and divide the land between them.

After forcing her to disenchant Princess Ozma, Glinda the Good Witch of the South made Mombi drink a powerful draught that stripped the old witch of all her magic powers.

In "The Lost King of Oz", Mombi raises havoc once again, and at the end of the book, in a rare act of Ozite capital punishment, Mombi is ruthlessly doused with water and melts away like the Wicked Witch of the West, so that nothing is left of her but her buckled shoes.



O'BSERVATIONS:
We've met a lot of the witches and warlocks who were related to Samantha Stephens of 'Bewitched' - cousins, uncles, aunts, her parents.... We know that Endora was her mother, but did we ever meet her grandmother?

It's the Toobworld Central contention that Mombi was the mother of Endora. But Maurice whisked her away to the planet of Earth Prime-Time, after he met her while he was exploring the Land of Oz.

Endora probably never knew whatever became of her mother. And more than likely she never truly cared.....


BCnU!

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