Reera the Red's Cottage
also Reera's cottage · the lonely cottage
A lonely purple-and-white cottage of one room, reached by a path east of the Lake of the Skeezers, where the Yookoohoo Reera the Red lives among transformed pets and where Ervic brings the three fishes.
First named in Glinda of Oz, ch. 16
Indeed the moon sank low and day was beginning to dawn when finally he discovered by the roadside a pretty little cottage, painted purple with white trimmings.
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
A path from the shore of the Lake of the Skeezers leads to it; Ervic tells Reera she is 'the only real Yookoohoo in all Oz' and she dresses in 'the pretty Gillikin costume'.
What the books say it is
inhabitants Reera the Red, a shape-changing Yookoohoo, with her transformed creatures 1 chapter
The cottage is the home of a powerful Yookoohoo, named Reera the Red, who assumes all sorts of forms, sometimes changing her form several times in a day, according to her fancy.
Glinda of Oz, ch. 18
colour painted purple with white trimmings 1 chapter
Follow the path until you come to a cottage which is painted a purple color with white trimmings.
Glinda of Oz, ch. 16
appearance a lonely one-room cottage with no other buildings about and untilled ground 1 chapter
It was a lonely place--no other buildings were anywhere about and the ground was not tilled at all.
Glinda of Oz, ch. 16