Indeed, in The Marvelous Land of Oz, Mombi tries to escape through it and Glinda chases her over the sands.

They escape and fly across the Deadly Desert with Mombi and the Wheelers pursuing underground.

At the Emerald City, during a victory celebration, Dorothy spots the girl who had helped her escape the hospital in Kansas named Princess Ozma, Jack's long-lost creator and the rightful ruler of Oz who had been enchanted into a mirror by Mombi.

Indeed, in The Marvelous Land of Oz, Mombi tries to escape through it and Glinda chases her over the sands, but in Ozma of Oz, it has become a magical desert with life-destroying sands, a feature that remained constant through the rest of the series.

Mombi is not fooled, and she takes this opportunity to demonstrate the Powder of Life that she bought from another sorcerer.

Under pressure from Glinda, Mombi admits that the Wizard brought her the infant Ozma and that she used her magic to transform her into the boy Tip.

Although most of the plot was taken from Ozma, the action was chiefly re-located to the derelict Emerald City, ruled by Princess Mombi ( Princess Langwidere in all but name ) and her Wheelers.

This change is due to the fact that Baum got complaints from children on how they didn't like the mention of the wizard assisting Mombi, so Baum left this out of later books.

After the Wizard's departure, the Scarecrow is briefly enthroned, until the rightful hereditary ruler of Oz, Princess Ozma, is freed from the witch Mombi at the end of The Marvelous Land of Oz.

Mombi transformed Ozma into a boy and called him " Tip " ( short for Tippetarius ) in order to prevent the rightful ruler of Oz from ascending to the throne.

In Baum's The Land of Oz, Glinda categorically states that she does not engage in " transformations " because " they are not real ", but in this series, the Good Witch transforms into an eagle in order to pursue Mombi, who attempts to fly away from the Emerald City in the form of a dragon.

The witch Mombi first obtained it from a " crooked magician.

After Mombi is imprisoned, Ozma then invites Dorothy to visit Oz any time she likes before sending her home, promising that she will check in with Dorothy from time-to-time to make sure that she is all right.

In the play, the Woggle-Bug initially sides with Mombi and General Jinjur's Army of Revolt, but falls in with the heroes when he flees from the Army's charge and is taken prisoner.

The 1910 silent film The Wonderful Wizard of Oz features a character similar to the Wicked Witch of the West, identified in intertitles as " Momba the Witch " ( Compare the character Mombi from The Marvelous Land of Oz ).

This version gives the witch the most prolonged and dramatic death scene of all versions ; it also differs from previous adaptations by suggesting that Mombi was her protege.

She became the Ruler of the Gillikin Country in the North after freeing the Gillikins from the clutches of Mombi, the erstwhile Wicked Witch of the North.

One day Mombi visited a Crooked Magician called Dr. Nikidik, and purchased the Powder of Life from him, which she used to bring Jack Pumpkinhead to life.

In the 1985 movie Return to Oz, the character of Mombi was combined with head-exchanging Princess Langwidere from the third book in the series, Ozma of Oz and she is renamed Princess Mombi.

Mombi, this image is from The Land of Oz which entered the public domain 1993-02-01.

He agrees to the reverse transformation, but Glinda the Good disapproves of shapeshifting magic, so it is done by the evil witch Mombi.

Glinda discovered that the Wizard made three visits to Mombi, but not what they were for.

Glinda discovers the deception right away and leads the pursuit of Mombi, who is finally caught as she tries to run across the Deadly Desert in the form of a fast-and long-running Griffin ( though later books state that anyone who touches the Desert is transformed into dust ).

At first, Tip is shocked to learn this, but Glinda and his friends help him to accept his destiny, and Mombi performs her last spell ( although there is some evidence that she performed magic later on in The Tin Woodman of Oz ).

In The Marvelous Land of Oz, Glinda the Good Sorceress discovered what had happened and forced Mombi to turn Tip back into Ozma ; ever since then, the Princess has possessed the Throne of Oz ( although many realms within Oz remained unaware of her authority ).

She is able to summon the powers of " all the good fairies " when restoring Princess Ozma to her rightful form, almost making her equal to L. Frank Baum's Queen Lurline ( whereas Baum's Glinda is a stately sorceress showing no association with fairy magic or " unscrupulous " witchcraft, insisting that the witch Mombi herself disenchant Ozma unlike in this film ).

After restoring Princess Ozma to the throne, Glinda uses her magic on Mombi and Jinjur to make them reform, when the witch and the rebel queen refuse to mend their villainous ways.

Having thus changed Mombi and Jinjur's inherent natures, Glinda ensures that they will never create trouble for anyone again.

After forcing her to disenchant Princess Ozma, Glinda the Good Witch of the South made Mombi drink a powerful draught that stripped the old witch of all her magic powers.

Mombi restored Ozma to her proper form, and Glinda took away Mombi's magical powers.

When her plans are thwarted by Dorothy, Glinda and " Pumpkinhead ", she transforms herself into a rose, as in The Marvelous Land of Oz ; however, in this adaptation, the rose is trampled by one of the elephants, and Mombi is killed.

Like in Baum's original book, Mombi is stripped of all her magical powers at the end of the story ( except by Princess Ozma, rather than Glinda, in this film ).

He carries Glinda in her pursuit of Mombi into the desert while the latter is in the form of a gryphon.

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 ).

As Mombi is returning home, Tip plans to frighten her with a scarecrow he has made.

She sprinkles the powder on Jack, bringing him to life and startling Tip, whom Mombi catches and threatens with revenge.

Tip leaves with Jack that night and steals the Powder of Life because Mombi plans to turn him into a marble statue in the morning.

The story was dramatized on the TV series " The Shirley Temple Show " in a one-hour program broadcast on September 18, 1960, with a notable cast including Shirley Temple as Tip and Ozma, Agnes Moorehead as Mombi the witch, Sterling Holloway as Jack Pumpkinhead, and Mel Blanc as the voice of the Saw-Horse and others.

Thus, Ozma spent her childhood with Mombi in the form of the boy Tip, and had no memory of ever having been a girl.

Liir ( son of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West ) briefly encounters Tip and Mombi ( the latter unnamed, but with a description matching Baum's and leading the four-horned cow mentioned on the first page of The Marvelous Land of Oz ).

The rest of the Wheelers later return with Princess Mombi and cross the desert through the tunnel dug underneath the desert to reach the Nome King's mountain.

For example, after bringing Jack to life, Mombi has the following exchange with him:

The Wicked Witch of the West leagued together with the Wicked Witch of the East, Mombi and the Wicked Witch of the South, to conquer the Land of Oz and divide it among themselves, as recounted in L. Frank Baum's Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.

They then fall into some spooky woods where they meet Pumpkinhead ( voiced by Paul Lynde ), the unwilling servant of Mombi, the cousin of both the deceased Wicked Witch of the East ( who was killed when a tornado dropped Dorothy's house on her in the first movie ) and the Wicked Witch of the West ( who melted after Dorothy doused her with water in the first movie ).

Running outside, Mombi disguises herself as a rose with poisonous thorns.

Orin had originally been kidnapped by the former Wicked Witch of the North, Mombi, who was in love with her husband, King Cheeriobed of the Ozure Isles.

In Hardenbrook's novel, Locasta and Queen Orin were " switched " by Mombi, the same way Mombi " switched " herself with the maid Jellia Jamb in L. Frank Baum's novel, The Marvelous Land of Oz.

In The Lost King of Oz, Mombi raises havoc once again, and at the end of the book, in a rare act of Ozite capital punishment, Mombi is ruthlessly doused with water and melts away like the Wicked Witch of the West, so that nothing is left of her but her buckled shoes.

After leaving the Gillikin Country to join forces with Jinjur, the new self-appointed Queen of Oz, Mombi was no longer under the jurisdiction of the Good Witch of the North.

In Ruth Plumly Thompson's The Lost King of Oz, Dorothy suggests that Mombi be put out with a pail of water for her misdeeds, and Princess Ozma herself commands it.