* The palace of Glinda the Good Witch, also known in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and other Oz books as the Witch of the South

General Guph also tells the Nome King that Glinda " commands the spirits of the air ,".

The Goat's death also prompts Glinda to re-evaluate her life, and she dedicates herself to studying sorcery, at which she proves to be quite skilled.

Glinda performs the functions of not only the novel's Good Witch of the North and Good Witch of the South, but also the novel's Queen of Field Mice, by being the one who welcomes Dorothy to Oz, sends her " off to see the Wizard ," and orchestrates her rescue from the deadly poppy field in addition to revealing the secret to going back home.

Apart from undoing Mombi's evil magic herself, this incarnation of Glinda also tells the old Gillikin witch that she has " allowed " her to practice some of her " less horrible tricks " thus far, suggesting that every practitioner of magic in Oz is ultimately answerable to Glinda should they go too far.

The resulting film version of The Wiz also starred former Motown star Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow, Nipsey Russell as the Tin Man, Richard Pryor as the Wizard, jazz singer Thelma Carpenter as Miss One and Lena Horne as Glinda the Good Witch.

The term also appears in the 2003 Broadway musical Wicked, where it is used by the characters Elphaba and Glinda to refer to the many inhabitants of the Emerald City: "...

Other voices were by Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, Paul Lynde, Herschel Bernardi, Paul Ford, Danny Thomas, Margaret Hamilton ( also from the 1939 film, but now playing Aunt Em rather than the Wicked Witch of the West ), and opera singer Risë Stevens as Glinda.

Luckily, Glinda is also keeping a watchful eye on things, and she conjures a golden hatchet, which she zaps to Pumpkinhead.

Elphaba's sister Nessarose is also called up to Shiz, ostensibly to accompany Nanny, who is to be the new chaperone for Glinda and Elphaba.

In the movie, Glinda the Good Witch of the North, portrayed by Billie Burke, is relatively young and beautiful ( though Burke was 54 at the time ), and in addition to meeting Dorothy on her arrival in Oz, she also supervises her progress on her journey to the Wizard and helps her find her way back to Kansas at the end of the story.

While she works with the witch Mombi, Jinjur is secretly afraid of her, and quickly pledges loyalty to Princess Ozma after she loses the throne to Glinda and her army ( which is also made up entirely of female soldiers ).

The MGM movie incarnation of the " Good Witch " knew the powers of the Magic Shoes, but withheld this information from Dorothy at the beginning, in order to facilitate her psychological and emotional maturity, which suggests that Billie Burke's Glinda is not as superficial as she appears to be at first glance, and that her flighty persona conceals her true depth and adult wisdom.

Glinda, looking very young and with long blonde hair, voiced by Wendy Thatcher, claims to be the sister of the Good Witch of the North despite the appearance of quite a large age gap ( Baum did always say she is much older than she looks ), and appears in the Emerald City in a similar deus ex machina to the MGM film.

In the Broadway musical The Wiz, Glinda is the Good Witch of the South, as she appears in the Oz books.

There is a flash of light and Addaperle appears, suggesting that Dorothy ask Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, for help.

She appears at that very moment with her Glinda Bird on her arm.

Her most famous role was as Glinda the Good Witch in the film The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

The Kensico Cemetery is the final resting place of the actress Billie Burke, who played Glinda, the " Good Witch of the North ", in the classic film The Wizard of Oz.

Glinda the Good Witch of the North ( Billie Burke ) magically puts the dead woman's ruby slippers on Dorothy's feet to protect her from the Witch's vengeful sister, the Wicked Witch of the West ( Margaret Hamilton ).

After being enchanted by Elphaba's old best friend and roommate Glinda ( the Good Witch of the North ) they become items of power that allow the armless Nessarose to stand without support.

While he is unconscious, he sees a revelation in the form of Glinda the Good Witch ( Sheryl Lee ) who tells him, " Don't turn away from love, Sailor ".

Ozma and her companions ( many of whom appeared in the two previous Oz books ) cross the Deadly Desert with the aid of a magic carpet provided by Glinda the Good Witch to free the royal family of Ev, and Ozma has Dorothy released from Princess Langwidere's custody.

After Princess Ozma decreed that no one could practice magic in Oz except for Glinda the Good Witch and the Wizard of Oz, Bini wrote down the directions for pronouncing " Pyrzqxgl " and hid them in his magical laboratory.

" When one of his royal guards tells the Wizard that Glinda the Good Witch is here, the Wizard quotes " Bring me my rape shoes.

Glinda ( in full, Glinda the Good Witch of the South ) is a fictional character in the Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum.

Baum's 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz refers to Glinda as the Good Witch of the South.

Guph may have gotten his facts muddled, as none of the Nomes had been to Oz at that time, but it portends the depiction of Glinda as the Good Witch of the North rather than the South in the 1939 MGM film ( which is the most widely known version of Oz to date ).

Maguire follows the 1939 movie in having Glinda ultimately become the Witch of the North, not the South.

In the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz, Glinda is the Good Witch of the North, not the South as in the book.

From the 7th book, The Patchwork Girl of Oz onwards, Baum goes so far as to say that " Glinda and the Wizard " are the " only " ones authorized to practice magic in Oz by Queen Ozma ; it is not clear whether he forgot about the Good Witch of the North, or had written her character out of the series.

In the original novel, of course, the unnamed Good Witch of the North genuinely believed that the Wizard of Oz was the only entity powerful enough to send Dorothy back home to Kansas, while Glinda the Good Witch ( later " Sorceress ") of the South does not claim to be similarly powerful until the sixth book, The Emerald City of Oz, by which point in time she creates " The Great Book of Records ," which chronicles everything that takes place inside as well as outside Oz.

In the official sequel to the 1939 film, operatic mezzo soprano Risë Stevens provides the voice of " Glinda, the Good Fairy " as she is described in the opening title sequence ( however, the Cowardly Lion refers to her as the Good Witch of the North later in the film.

In the Broadway musical Wicked ( based on Maguire's novel ), Glinda is one of the two female leads as the musical focuses on her love / hate relationship with Elphaba ( the young woman who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West ).

As in Gregory Maguire's revisionist novel, Glinda is characterized by her popularity and goes by the name of Galinda Upland ( who hails from the Upper Uplands ).

The love triangle between Glinda, Fiyero and Elphaba is what primarily distinguishes the Wicked musical incarnation of Glinda from Gregory Maguire's novel.

Like Maguire's novel, the film The Wizard of Oz combined the Witch of the South and the Witch of the North into one character, Glinda: The Good Witch of the North.

Both Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and the musical Wicked ( based on the book ), follow the model of the 1939 movie in giving the name " Glinda " to the character who grows up to become The Good Witch of the North.

* Kate Reinders, Broadway actress known for playing the role of Glinda in Wicked and Caroline in Good Vibrations

* Gina Beck-actress, singer, currently starring as Glinda in the London production of Wicked

Louise Dearman ( born 1979 ), who played Glinda in the West End Production of Wicked, was brought up in Leighton Buzzard, attending Linslade Middle School and Cedars Upper School.

Glinda clearly made the Fountain at a point in Oz's history when the Land was unified under one of the members of the Royal Family of Oz, albeit a tyrannical king in this isolated incident, and so she was able to intervene in a way that she couldn't when the country was divided between the Wizard and the Wicked Witches of the East and West et al., prior to Dorothy's arrival.

Maguire has strongly suggested that the fourth book in The Wicked Years will be about Glinda.

She arranges for Dorothy to return to the Land of Oz by means of the Ruby Slippers, because the Wicked Witch of the West has been brought back to life, and Glinda needs Dorothy's help to set things right again.

Glinda is the Good Witch of the South and is played by Miss Piggy, as are her sisters the Good Witch of the North and the two Wicked Witches.

Boq was an unwanted but ardent suitor that Glinda foisted upon Nessarose, the Munchkin Governor's daughter, who became so attached to him that she stripped the Munchkins of their rights just to keep Boq with her ( thus earning the title " Wicked Witch of the East ").

The musical opened on Broadway on January 5, 1975, with Stephanie Mills as Dorothy, Hinton Battle as the Scarecrow, Tiger Haynes as the Tin Man, Ted Ross as the Lion, Dee Dee Bridgewater as Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, André DeShields as the Wizard, Mabel King as Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West, Clarice Taylor as Addaperle, the Good Witch of the North, Tasha Thomas as Aunt Em, and Ralph Wilcox as Uncle Henry.

In the musical adaption Wicked, he is only mentioned briefly when Glinda mistakenly calls him " Dodo ".

She was then cast as Kristin Chenoweth's replacement ( for the role of Glinda ) in the Broadway hit musical Wicked at the Gershwin Theatre.

In The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz, Glinda and the Good Witch of the North are again separate characters ( and the Good Witch of the North has the name Tattypoo ), although they are both played by Miss Piggy ( as are the two Wicked Witches ).

In Wicked, Boq is a Munchkin who attends Shiz University with Elphaba and Galinda ( who would grow up to become The Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch respectively ).