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Kumaparty

Kuma Party meets Peter Brown.

Kuma Party (pronounced "come apart-y") is one of the strange magical beings to be found in the Land of Oz.

Description[]

He lives in a little yellow house in the Winkie Country, and appears to be a normal human being, a somewhat elderly man with a soft voice and a kindly smile, who enjoys sitting in his armchair smoking a pipe.

Yet he has the remarkable ability to detach parts of his body - his hand, his foot, his head - and send them flying through the air to accomplish tasks. His detached foot can give a kick at a distance, and his hand is very adroit at remote applications.

Kumashand

Kuma in battle, viewed by Scraps, Peter, and Grumpy.

Kuma is a moral person; when Peter Brown and Ruggedo reach Oz together, Kuma employs his abilities to help the boy and vex the evil Nome. Kuma sent his hand to the Emerald City where it was crucial in foiling Ruggedo's plot to send the City's leaders to the bottom of the Nonestic Ocean. (The Gnome King of Oz)

History[]

Kuma Party is the son of Wumbo the Wonder Worker, a wizard of the Zamagoochie Country. Kuma attributes his "strange come-apartishness" to his father's magic.

No mother for Kuma is ever named. It may be that he is not Wumbo's biological son, but instead a homunculus who identifies his loving creator as father, a la Jack Pumpkinhead or Pinocchio.

For Kuma's separable and mobile hand, compare Reachard's similar long-distance manipulations. (Ojo in Oz)

Works by other authors[]

The Gnome King of Oz entered the public domain on January 1, 2023. Kumma Party and his father appear prominently in "I Am Jinjur" (first of the Jinjur Series), released on January 15 of that year. Author Jonathan Markoff changed the spelling to make the phonetics clearer. The character's appearance is described quite differently than in Ruth Plumly Thompson's version.]]

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