Those Wicked Witches of the West have little in common with the one that L. Frank Baum created in his 1900 children's classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Baum's witch wasn't green, for starters.

The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," which takes place before the events of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and the 1939 film adaptation "The Wizard of Oz." ...

Frank Baum’s 1900 novel “The Wonderful Wizard ... started their own journey to becoming the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch of the North. “Wicked” is full of Easter eggs ...

Frank Baum’s original book. “This distortion. This repulsion. This wicked witch," Yeoh's Madame Morrible declares in a ...

However, Baum’s racism has led some readers to reconsider whether or not the Wicked Witch was a proxy for his views on Native Americans and re-evaluate how they understand Dorothy’s killing of ...

Ours is an age of dread. It's interesting that out of the scores of "Oz" characters Baum invented, pop culture seized on The Wicked Witch of the West — a malevolent but minor character ...

The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” by Gregory Maguire, based on L. Frank Baum’s characters in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” All we’re saying is that you’d have to ...

Frank Baum did not even imagine his witch with green ... apparently one of the sweetest people off-screen to play the Wicked Witch of the West. Margaret Hamilton was a former kindergarten teacher ...