The Magic of Oz

Dr. Pipt's House

also the house of Dr. Pipt · the house of the Crooked Magician · the Magician's house

The lonely round blue house of Dr. Pipt, the Crooked Magician, standing in a clearing on the mountain above the Blue Forest, where he stirs his Powder of Life in a great domed workshop and where Margolotte's Patchwork Girl is brought to life.

First named in The Patchwork Girl of Oz, ch. 2

Then they started on again and two hours later came in sight of the house of Dr. Pipt.

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

    Ch.2 puts it up the right-hand path on 'the mountain that separated the Country of the Munchkins from the Country of the Gillikins', a round house 'painted blue, which is the distinctive color of the Munchkin Country of Oz'.

What the books say it is

  • inhabitants Dr. Pipt the Crooked Magician, his wife Margolotte and their Glass Cat 1 chapter
    • No servant will come here because the place is so lonely and out-of-the-way, so my clever husband, the Crooked Magician, proposed that I make a girl out of some sort of material and he would make her live by sprinkling over her the Powder of Life.
      The Patchwork Girl of Oz, ch. 2
  • colour painted blue, with a garden of blue trees, blue flowers and blue vegetables 1 chapter
    • There was a pretty garden around the house, where blue trees and blue flowers grew in abundance and in one place were beds of blue cabbages, blue carrots and blue lettuce, all of which were delicious to eat.
      The Patchwork Girl of Oz, ch. 2
  • appearance a big round Munchkin house in a clearing on the mountain, with a great domed workshop hall at the back 1 chapter
    • It was a big house, round, as were all the Munchkin houses, and painted blue, which is the distinctive color of the Munchkin Country of Oz.
      The Patchwork Girl of Oz, ch. 2

Appearances

The Patchwork Girl of Oz (4 of 28 chapters)

Seen here