The Magic of Oz™

Flatheads

The Flatheads are a people who inhabit a mountain south of the Lake of the Skeezers and are at war with the Skeezers.

First named in Glinda of Oz, ch. 1

said Ozma, "who are the Flatheads?"

What the books say it is

  • region a mountain just south of the Lake of the Skeezers 1 chapter
  • colour violet 1 chapter
    • Their eyes were perhaps their best feature, being large and bright and a deep violet in color.
      Glinda of Oz, ch. 5
  • hair bald, no hair on top 1 chapter
    • Their heads were really flat on top, as if they had been cut off just above the eyes and ears. Also the heads were bald, with no hair on top at all, and the ears were big and stuck straight out, and the noses were small and stubby, while the mouths of the Flatheads were well shaped and not unusual.
      Glinda of Oz, ch. 5
  • wears costumes made of small metal discs 1 chapter
  • trait cunning 1 chapter
    • So the Flatheads cunningly made their wall invisible, believing that everyone who saw the entrance to the mountain would walk straight toward it, as we did, and find it impossible to go any farther.
      Glinda of Oz, ch. 5

Appears in

Glinda of Oz (2 of 24 chapters)

Mentioned in

Glinda of Oz (15 of 24 chapters)

Connections

  • transformed into Mountaineers 1 chapter
    • When all had been treated in this manner there were no more Flatheads at all, and the Adepts decided to name their people Mountaineers.
      Glinda of Oz, ch. 24

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