In the original television series, Fester was Morticia's uncle.

Guests included Morticia's older sister Ophelia ( also played by Carolyn Jones in the original television series ), Morticia's cousin Melancholia, and Morticia's mother Hester Frump ( played in the 1960s series by Margaret Hamilton, wearing her Miss Almira Gulch dress from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz ).

In the original sitcom of the 1960s, Fester is said to be Morticia's maternal uncle, but in all other filmed and animated content he is Gomez's brother, making him uncle to Wednesday and Pugsley.

In Charles Addams ' original The New Yorker cartoon strips, the character was referred to as Grandma Frump, therefore making her Morticia's mother.

Charles Addams originally named the character Grandma / Granny Frump in his notes for the cartoon characters's adaptation to television in 1965, thereby making her Morticia's mother.

In several episodes, Fester refers to the Addams lineage as if it were his own, but the flashbacks in the episodes " Morticia's Romance, Parts 1 and 2 ," clearly establish him as Morticia's uncle, brother of her mother, Hester Frump, a. k. a. Granny Frump ( Margaret Hamilton ).

In the third film, in which she was named Esmeralda, she was again implied to come from Morticia's family.

Per the 1960s sitcom, little is known of Fester's childhood, save that his father ( Morticia's maternal grandfather ) was an excruciatingly strict man who severely disciplined him, paddling him even when he was good and paying him to stay out of public ( Fester considered this to be experience in " public relations ").

As a young man, Gomez was, per flashback in " Morticia's Romance ," a perennially sickly youth, gaining perfect health only after meeting Morticia.

The films differ from the television series in several ways, most significantly that Fester is Gomez's brother ( in the television show, he was Morticia's uncle ).

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In the third film, in which she is named Esmeralda, she is again implied to come from Morticia's family.

Whereas Bachofen saw the switch to paternity on Athena's behalf as an increase of power, Freud on the contrary perceived Athena as an " original mother goddess divested of her power ".

The Hebrew of the original calls the child's mother a " young woman ", but the Greek-speaking 1st century CE author of Matthew 1: 23, using the Hellenistic Greek translation of the Hebrew sacred texts, interpreted it as a prophecy that the Messiah would be born of a virgin.

Dedham is sometimes called the " mother of towns " because 14 present-day communities were included within its original broad borders.

A connection with Smyrna seems to be alluded to in a legend that his original name was Melesigenes (" born of Meles ", a river which flowed by that city ), with his mother the nymph Kretheis.

John Bruce's original family name was Knight, but on coming of age in 1805 he assumed the name of Bruce: his mother, through whom he inherited the Duffryn estate, was the daughter of William Bruce, high sheriff of Glamorganshire.

On 4 September 1483, referring to the feast as that of " the Conception of Immaculate Mary ever Virgin ", he condemned both those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that the " glorious and immaculate mother of God was conceived without the stain of original sin " and those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that " the glorious Virgin Mary was conceived with original sin ", since, he said, " up to this time there has been no decision made by the Roman Church and the Apostolic See.

According to John of Fordun, whose account is the original source of part at least of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Malcolm's mother was a niece of Siward, Earl of Northumbria, but an earlier king-list gives her the Gaelic name Suthen.

Menelik was said to be a practising Jew who was given a replica of the Ark of the Covenant by King Solomon ; and, moreover, that the original was switched and went to Axum with him and his mother, and is still there, guarded by a single priest charged with caring for the artifact as his life's task.

His original birth name was Wayland, meaning land by the highway, but it was changed after a Baptist preacher visited Jennings ' parents and congratulated his mother for naming him after the Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas.

Ameterasu may be one of the last surviving vestiges of the original mother goddess of prehistoric times.

Her mother and Winkler were both afraid of flying and insisted they follow their original travel plans.

When this happens, the original genus is called a mother cloud.

If the mother cloud retains much of its original form after the appearance of the new genus, it is termed a genitus cloud.

Although this new, multicultural form of Isis absorbed characteristics from many other deities, her original mythological nature as a wife and mother was key to her appeal.

As a child she lost her mother ( at age 10 in the original versions ; at age three in the later versions ).

Pavlova's passion for the art of ballet was ignited when her mother took her to a performance of Marius Petipa's original production of The Sleeping Beauty at the Imperial Maryinsky Theater.

However, when a young man ( the original woman's son ) had discovered that his fiance was this clone, he killed the clone, and then publicly killed his mother, and also attempted his own suicide before being stopped.

In the final two chapters of Book I we learn more about the letter's writer Shem the Penman ( I. 7 ) and its original author, his mother ALP ( I. 8 ).

: Herodotus, the original source for this story, does not state the name of the mother of Cleobis and Biton.

Although Marvel Comics published two conflicting histories of Elektra Natchios, in the original version Orestez murdered their mother after her infidelities shamed their father.

In Egyptian mythology, Horus was conceived by Isis, the mother goddess, from Osiris, the original god-king of Egypt, who had been murdered by his brother Set, and thus became the god of the underworld.

Pamela Low, a flavorist at Arthur D. Little and " the mother of Cap ' n Crunch ," developed the original Cap ' n Crunch flavor from her grandmother's recipe of brown sugar and butter served over rice.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

Stowey Rummel was internationally famous, a crafter of a genuine Americana in foreign eyes, an original designer whose inventive childishness with steel and concrete was made even more believably sincere by his personality.

He claims that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because ( 1 ) at a hearing before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice, he was not permitted to rebut statements attributed to him by the local board, and ( 2 ) at the trial, he was denied the right to have the hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim.

Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

That Prokofieff's harmonies and forms sometimes seem professionally routine to our ears, may or may not indicate that he was less of an `` original '' than we prefer to believe.

This original capsule contained a battery and a transistor oscillator and was about 1 cm. in diameter.

when the insoluble fraction was suspended in a volume of saline equal to that of the original serum sample, no complete antibody activity could be detected.

Approximately ten days after the questionnaire was mailed, a follow-up airmail postcard was sent to each of the original names.

In parts a repeated sponging was needed, but everywhere we found that water alone was enough to restore the original brightness.

Down in Concord, New Hampshire, was a flier in the right place at the right time: Robert S. Fogg, a native New Englander, had been a World War 1, flying instructor, barnstormer, and one of the original planners of the Concord Airport.

`` To be creative is to have the ability to cause to exist -- to produce where nothing was before -- to bring forth an original production of human intelligence or power ''.

What remained lacked the original verve but it was at least dignified, as befitting the tragic circumstances.