The Magic of Oz

Mombi's House

also the farm-house · Mombi's farm

The round, dome-shaped Gillikin farmhouse, with its corn-fields and cow stable, where old Mombi raised the boy Tip and where she brings Jack Pumpkinhead to life.

First named in The Marvelous Land of Oz, ch. 1

By the time this feat had been accomplished it began to grow dark, and Tip remembered he must milk the cow and feed the pigs. So he picked up his wooden man and carried it back to the house with him.

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

    The book opens 'In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip,' and calls the house one of the farm houses in the Land of Oz.

What the books say it is

  • inhabitants old Mombi, the boy Tip, pigs and a four-horned cow 1 chapter
    • He also worked in the corn-fields, hoeing and husking; and he fed the pigs and milked the four-horned cow that was Mombi’s especial pride.
      The Marvelous Land of Oz, ch. 1
  • appearance round, dome-shaped farm house 1 chapter
  • appearance dim and smoky kitchen 1 chapter
    • Then he would glance at the stern and wrinkled features of the witch and wish he were any place but in that dim and smoky kitchen, where even the shadows cast by the candle upon the wall were enough to give one the horrors.
      The Marvelous Land of Oz, ch. 2

Appearances

The Marvelous Land of Oz (3 of 24 chapters)

Seen here