Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-29195016-20160805003445/@comment-1916997-20160806042931

DracoWombat wrote: Baum initially went with the "East and West are wicked, North and South are good" mentality, but, when faced with writing a sequel that established the existence of Princess Ozma of Oz, he had to create Mombi, the Wicked Witch of the North, as a plot device, and then completely eschewed the "cardinal morality" system entirely. I believe he also confirmed in that sequal or one of the others that there was in fact 4 evil witches, one for each of the cardinal directions, but Locasta (Good Witch of the North) and Glinda (Good Witch of the South) overthrew the Wicked Witches of the North and South respectivly. They Dorothy's house landed on the Wicked Witch of the East, and she killed the Wicked Witch of the West with water, so that by the end of the first book, no evil witches were left that had ruling powers over part of Oz.