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He has used the Powder of Life to animate both [[Scraps]] the Patchwork Girl and [[Bungle, the Glass Cat]]. |
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Revision as of 13:28, 7 May 2009
Dr. Pipt, sometimes called "The Crooked Magician," is a fictional character from the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. His title refers to his physical appearance; he is described in The Patchwork Girl of Oz as being so crooked that when he sat one knee was under his chin and the other behind his back.
Dr. Pipt lives in the Munchkin Country with his wife Margolotte. In The Patchwork Girl of Oz he claims he invented the Powder of Life, although in The Marvelous Land of Oz, its invention is credited to a Dr. Nikidik, another crooked magician from the Gillikin Country. Oz characters sometimes change their names—Roquat the Nome King becomes Ruggedo. (In an article in the Spring 1965 issue of The Baum Bugle, Lee Speth argues that Nikidik faked his death in the earlier book, to assume a new identity as Pipt.) He has used the Powder of Life to animate both Scraps the Patchwork Girl and Bungle, the Glass Cat.
He also created the Liquid of Petrifaction, which turns things to marble. Unfortunately, it is spilled on his wife Margolotte and friend Unc Nunkie at the beginning of The Patchwork Girl of Oz.