Ruggedo proves their power (for Kiki's the only one who knows 'Pyrzqxgl') by having Kiki transform one of the leopard king Gugu's advisors, Loo the unicorn, into a man and back again. Ruggedo claims that the Li-Mon-Eags will transform the animals into humans and march on the Emerald City and transform its inhabitants into animals, driving them into the forest.

When they first appear in the Forest of Gugu in the Gillikin Country, Kiki changes himself and Ruggedo into Li-Mon-Eags (fictional creatures with the heads of lions, the bodies of monkeys, and the wings of eagles as well as having the tails of donkeys) and lies that they've seen the people of the Emerald City plan to enslave the animal inhabitants of the Forest. They enter Oz as animals to escape detection by Glinda and to recruit an army of conquest from the country's wild animal population. Kiki changes himself and Ruggedo into birds and they fly over the Deadly Desert into the Land of Oz. This conversation is overheard by Ruggedo, the Nome who was exiled to the Earth's surface in Tik-Tok of Oz, and he sees through Kiki Aru's power a chance to get revenge on the people of Oz. A sparrow confronts the then-human Kiki Aru with knowledge of the theft, and Kiki says that he did not know what it was like to be wicked before, he is glad that he is now. When he alights in the land of Ev, Kiki Aru learns that he needs money to pay for a night's lodging (versus Oz, where the money is not used at all) and changes himself into a magpie to steal a gold piece from an old man. When Bini and his wife are at a fair one day, their son Kiki Aru, who thirsts for adventure, finds the directions and afterward transforms himself into a hawk and visits various countries outside the land of Oz. 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. One of their numbers, a Munchkin named Bini Aru, discovered a method of transforming people and objects by merely saying the word 'Pyrzqxgl'. The novel was dedicated to 'the Children of our Soldiers, the Americans and their Allies, with unmeasured Pride and Affection.'Īt the top of Mount Munch lives a group of people known as the Hyups. Published on June 7, 1919, one month after the author's death, The Magic of Oz relates the unsuccessful attempt of the Munchkin boy Kiki Aru and former Nome King Ruggedo to conquer Oz.

The Magic of Oz is the thirteenth Land of Oz book written by L.

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