The Magic of Oz™

Ruby Key

A blood-red ruby key that unlocks the thirty cupboards containing the Princess's collection of heads.

First named in Ozma of Oz, ch. 6

a beautiful ruby key which she always wears on a chain attached to her left wrist

What the books say it is

  • made of ruby 1 chapter
    • One key unlocked all the velvet cupboards containing these treasures--a curious key carved from a single blood-red ruby--and this was fastened to a strong but slender chain which the Princess wore around her left wrist.
      Ozma of Oz, ch. 6
  • colour blood-red 1 chapter
    • One key unlocked all the velvet cupboards containing these treasures--a curious key carved from a single blood-red ruby--and this was fastened to a strong but slender chain which the Princess wore around her left wrist.
      Ozma of Oz, ch. 6
  • appearance beautiful 1 chapter
    • For the Princess Langwidere is a different person every time I see her, and the only way her subjects can recognize her at all is by means of a beautiful ruby key which she always wears on a chain attached to her left wrist.
      Ozma of Oz, ch. 6

Mentioned in

Ozma of Oz (1 of 21 chapters)