Gayelette
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| Gayelette | |
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| Oz character | |
 Wedding of Gayelette and Quelala Illustration by W.W. Denslow |
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| First appearance | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) |
| Created by | L. Frank Baum |
| Information | |
| Species | human |
| Gender | female |
| Age | unknown |
| Date of birth | unknown |
| Date of death | probably immortal |
| Occupation | sorceress |
| Family | none known |
| Spouse(s) | Quelala |
| Children | none known |
| Relatives | none known |
| Address | Ruby Palace in the Gillikin Country |
| Nationality | Gillikin |
Gayelette is a character in L. Frank Baum's novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. She is a great sorceress in the North (Gillikin Country) of the Land of Oz who lives in a ruby castle built by her people, the men of whom she considers ugly and stupid, aside from her young husband, Quelala.
When she decides it is time to get married, she can find no men worthy of mating with her. Eventually, she finds a young boy named Quelala. She has him raised to make a suitable husband for her. When Quelala grows up, he is fitted for a silk and velvet suit for the wedding, and the King of the Winged Monkeys picks him up and throws him into a river. Quelala is able to swim, and does not mind the prank at all, but Gayelette is furious at the damage to the suit and uses her powers to control the Winged Monkeys.
She enchants them with a Golden Cap, which forces them to do the bidding of the wearer, but each wearer gets only three opportunities. The first to do so is Quelala, to whom she gives the cap as a wedding present. Gayelette cannot stand the sight of the Monkeys, so Quelala's only request is that they go away where she never has to see them.
The entire story of Gayelette and Quelala is told by the current King of the Winged Monkeys, whose grandfather pranked Quelala. The Monkeys do not know how the Wicked Witch of the West acquired the Golden Cap.
In spite of her harsh treatment of the Winged Monkeys and her judgment of the people, the current King of the Winged Monkeys says that her people loved her. She used her magic to help the people and was considered wise and good.[1]
[edit] Later Oz books
Gayelette never appears again in a canon Oz book. In Roger S. Baum's Dorothy of Oz, she and Quelala aid Dorothy Gale when Dorothy seeks them out.[2] They did not meet in the first Oz book.
Some have speculated that Gayelette may be a younger version of the Good Witch of the North, though such an explanation is not canon. She was not included in Jack Snow's Who's Who in Oz, nor was Quelala. The character has never appeared in an adaptation with the exception of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz anime series, but then only in the unedited TV version.
The characters also appear in Christopher Charles Douglas's fan novel, Mira of Oz (2002). [3]
[edit] References
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