" Examples of fantasy supernaturalism include magic ( spells, harm to opponents ), magical places ( Narnia, Oz, Middle Earth, Hogwarts ), supernatural creatures ( witches, vampires, orcs, trolls ), supernatural transportation ( flying broomsticks, ruby slippers, windows between worlds ), and shapeshifting ( beast into man, man into wolf or bear, lion into sheep ).

In the children's book and movie, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a pair of red ruby slippers play a key role in the plot.

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 ).

The curled-toe " Arabian " ruby slippers on display at the auction of the collection of Debbie Reynolds in Beverly Hills on June 18, 2011

According to Rhys Thomas in his Los Angeles Times article, " all the ruby slippers are between Size 5 and 6, varying between B and D widths.

To create the ruby slippers, the shoes were dyed red, then burgundy sequined organza overlays were attached to each shoe's upper and heel.

In one sequence of the 1939 film, Garland is not wearing the ruby slippers when Dorothy should be wearing them ( an apparent blunder by the filmmakers ).

The ruby slippers play an integral role in the 1985 Walt Disney Pictures film Return to Oz, for which Disney had to obtain rights from MGM to use reproductions in the film.

An imitation pair of ruby slippers appeared in the 2002 movie The Master of Disguise.

During the fall 2008 Fashion Week in New York City, the Swarovski company held a charity contest to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the film, with nineteen designers redesigning the ruby slippers, including Gwen Stefani, Diane von Fürstenberg, and Moschino.

In the 1990 – 1991 animated production of The Wizard of Oz, the ruby slippers ' powers are significantly enhanced.

In the episode " Das Boots " of The Suite Life on Deck, London tries to save herself and other characters who are trapped aboard a submarine by putting on a pair of ruby slippers, and saying " There's no place like home.

The 1939 film's famous ruby slippers were used in place of the Magic Belt.

The ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz sold for a record $ 165, 000.

Aubrey downsized the struggling MGM and sold off massive amounts of historical memorabilia, including Dorothy's ruby slippers ( from The Wizard of Oz ), the majority of the studio's backlots in Culver City and overseas operations such as the British MGM studio at Borehamwood.

The movie replaces the silver shoes of the book with ruby slippers.

Due to the popularity of the movie, the green witch and the ruby slippers are more well known to the general public than their book counterparts, and are even considered iconic.

A large fee was paid, however, to use the ruby slippers, which were still the intellectual property of MGM at the time.

She is depicted as having blonde hair, a red shirt with a green belt and a burgundy dress over her distinguishable striped stockings and ruby slippers.

* The ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz ( Another of the 5 known pairs is in the National Museum of American History administered by the Smithsonian ).

She is seen wearing ruby slippers in the film.

Feeling guilty, Elphaba enchants the Silver Shoes by means of a spell from the Grimmerie, turning them into the ruby slippers and enabling her younger sister to walk at last.

It was also around this time that Ernest Miller began wearing ruby slippers in the ring and dancing in a James Brown-esque fashion to celebrate his victories.

Dorothy has decided to return to Oz with Toto using the ruby slippers that showed up on her doorstep.

In modern usage the precious stones are diamond, ruby, sapphire and emerald, with all other gemstones being semi-precious.

For example ruby and sapphire have the same chemical composition ( both are corundum ) but exhibit different colors.

Synthetic ( lab created ) corundums, including ruby and sapphire, are very common and they cost only a fraction of the natural stones.

Some spinels are among the most famous gemstones: Among them is the Black Prince's Ruby and the ' Timur ruby ' in the British Crown Jewels, and the ' cote de Bretagne ' formerly from the French Crown jewels.

This is why spinel and ruby are often found together.

Pyrope has tradenames some of which are misnomers ; Cape ruby, Arizona ruby, California ruby, Rocky Mountain ruby, and Bohemian garnet from the Czech Republic.

Among the natural gems only moissanite and diamond are harder, with diamond having a Mohs hardness of 10. 0 and moissonite falling somewhere in between corundum ( ruby ) and diamond in hardness.

Pink, orange, and purple are the normal secondary hues in ruby.

The fewer the number and the less obvious the imperfections, the more valuable the ruby is ; unless there are no imperfections ( i. e., a " perfect " ruby ), in which case it will be suspected of being artificial.

Rods of synthetic ruby are used to make ruby lasers and masers.

Typically called just ruby or rubi, such annotations are used as pronunciation guides for characters that are likely to be unfamiliar to the reader.

The grapes grown here are used mainly for the production of inexpensive ruby and tawny ports.

Since they are aged in barrels for only a short time, they retain their dark ruby colour and fresh fruit flavours.

Some specimens have a red iridescence within the gray-black crystals ; these are called " ruby sphalerite.

Dorothy's shoes ( made of silver in the book, not the familiar ruby that is depicted in the movie ) are interpreted to symbolize using free silver instead of the gold standard ( the road of yellow brick ) because the shortage of gold precipitated the Panic of 1893.

In the film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, the silver shoes were turned into ruby for the cinematic effect of color, as Technicolor was still in its early years when the movie was produced.

The ruby was similarly worn in the crown of Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

However the jewel lacks the ultimate luxury of being set with gems, for example having ruby eyes, like the lion pendants worn by Sir John Donne and his wife and several examples listed on the 1397 treasure roll of King Richard II.