Monday, April 23, 2012

T is for TIn Woodman

The Tin Woodman started out as a normal Munchkin named Nick Chopper, until he fell in love with a girl named Nimmie Amee. Unfortunately, Nimmie Amee worked for a lazy old woman (in one version of the story, it's the Wicked Witch of the East herself) who did not want her to leave. So this woman caused Nick's ax to be cursed and start chopping limbs instead of trees. Every time this happened, he had a replacement limb made by the local tinsmith. Eventually, all his limbs had been removed and he was left with only his tin.

1 comment:

Charlie Warren said...

Hmmm...I never knew that about the Tin Woodman. The more I read this blog, the more I am interested in not just reading some of the Oz books but buying Adventures in Oz also.

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