The Magic of Oz™

Dark Well

A well where daylight never penetrates, source of water for the reversal compound.

First named in The Patchwork Girl of Oz, ch. 5

I must have a gill of water from a dark well

Where this is

  • placed In Oz worked out

    read out of the chapters cited on this page, not stated in any one sentence of them

    Found in the Horner mine beyond the Horner city, part of the Munchkin Country setting of The Patchwork Girl of Oz.

What the books say it is

  • colour pitch-dark 1 chapter
    • Scraps laughed, and resuming her dance she said: "Here's a job for a boy of brains: A drop of oil from a live man's veins; A six-leaved clover; three nice hairs From a Woozy's tail, the book declares Are needed for the magic spell, And water from a pitch-dark well.
      The Patchwork Girl of Oz, ch. 5

Appearances

The Patchwork Girl of Oz (2 of 28 chapters)

Seen here