Ojo is a character from the fictional Oz book series by L. Frank Baum. Jack Snow, ''Who's Who in Oz'', Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988; p. 148.

History

He first appeared in ''

The Patchwork Girl of Oz ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum is a children's novel, the seventh in the Oz series. Characters include the Woozy, Ojo "the Unlucky", Unc Nunkie, Dr. Pipt, Scraps (the patchwork girl), and others. The book was first published ...

''. Ojo is a

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who lived with his uncle, Unc Nunkie in the Blue Forest, a remote location in the north of the Munchkin Country. During a trip with his uncle to visit his uncle's friend Dr. Pipt, Ojo learns from Pipt's wife, Dame Margolotte, that he is known to others as "Ojo the Unlucky." Ojo discovers rationalizations for this, including the fact that he was born on

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, is

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, and has a

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under his arm, and he begins to believe that bad luck follows him wherever he goes. However, the

Tin Woodman Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodman, also known as the Tin Man or—mistakenly—the "Tin Woodsman," is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. Baum's Tin Woodman first appeared in his classic 1900 book '' ...

officially deems him Ojo the Lucky after hearing these reasons because he believes Ojo's bad luck is due to a

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. Ojo later starred in his own book, ''

Ojo in Oz 200px, Cover of ''Ojo in Oz''. ''Ojo in Oz'' ( 1933) is the twenty-seventh in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the thirteenth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill. Ojo (fr ...

'' by

Ruth Plumly Thompson Ruth Plumly Thompson (27 July 1891 – 6 April 1976) was an American writer of children's stories, best known for writing many novels placed in Oz, the fictional land of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel '' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' ...

. In this book, Thompson picked up a dropped thread of Baum's about Ojo being possibly related to royalty and made him the Prince of Seebania, whose family was enchanted by an evil sorcerer named Mooj, causing his father, King Ree Alla Bad, to run around Oz as a bandit called Realbad. Although Ojo is a Munchkin, he seems to be taller than the Munchkins Dorothy met during her first trip to Oz, though this is never stated. It is usually surmised from a passage in which Dr. Pipt refers to Ojo getting "taller," though only the comparative form of the word is used. Neither Ojo nor Unc Nunkie are described as "tall". In John R. Neill's books, Ojo is attendant to

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. This is never explained, but nothing precludes it from being a task a young prince's parents might force him to endure.

Popular culture

* Ojo appears as a main character in '' Lost In Oz'' voiced by Jorge Diaz. * Ojo appears in '' Emerald City'', portrayed by Ólafur Darri Ólafsson. He appears as a member of the Munja'kin tribe. * Ojo appears in ''

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'', voiced by

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References

Oz (franchise) characters Child characters in literature Male characters in literature Literary characters introduced in 1913 Fictional princes {{fantasy-char-stub