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In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1900 ) by L. Frank Baum, a lumberjack's cursed axe chopped all his limbs one by one, and each time a limb was cut off, a smith made him a mechanical one, finally making him a torso and a head, thus turning him into the Tin Woodman, an entirely mechanical being, albeit possessing the consciousness of the lumberjack he once was.

Conversely, in the book The Tin Woodman of Oz, the Tin Woodsman learns that his old human body parts ( minus the head ) were sewn together to create a new man who then married his old sweetheart.