![]() After Dorothy and Toto fell victim, even the Cowardly Lion gave into the hypnosis and temptation of them and fell fast asleep shortly after Dorothy and Toto did. Dorothy and her dog Toto succumbed to the slumbering scent of these pretty plants. And thinking this only as a lovely little short-cut, the group unknowingly walked right into a death trap. Thus, walking right into the scarlet field until they were knee deep in the flowery red carpet. Denslow 1900.ĭuring the long epic Journey to Emerald City to see the great and powerful Wizard, Dorothy nor her traveling comrades were ever warned beforehand about the curse held within the poppies. ![]() The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) " They walked along listening to the singing of the brightly colored birds and looking at the lovely flowers which now became so thick that the ground was carpeted with them. The meadow that is full of hundreds of thousands of them is vast and stretches out many, many miles in every direction at the borders of Munchkin Country. They are big, bright, lively, luscious, and delicately scented. However, these poppies are described by Baum as being more beautiful than any other poppy ever seen. ![]() Not much information is given as to where these blood red poppies originated from and why they became enchanted with the curse of eternal sleep. The most popular version of the poppies are most memorable from the classic 1939 Judy Garland film The Wizard of Oz, and were finally brought back on film in the plot of Disney's 2013-Oz Prequel Oz the Great and Powerful.There is no way to break this dark spell and stop the deadly flowers unless one were to be physically carried and taken out of the field and far away enough, to breathe in the fresh air and come out of the deadly trance, weakening the poison that dwells in the meadow. The Scarecrow and Tin Woodman carry a sleeping Dorothy and Toto out from the field of Deadly poppies. And when any living being or creature is surrounded by the pretty smell, it is so powerful that anyone who breathes it in for too long, falls into a deep eternal slumber, from which they cannot wake and one could sleep on forever and ever amongst these plants until eventual death. In Oz, once the poppies blossom, they live forever. Some species are monocarpic, dying after flowering, but in Oz these poppies can never die or ever wilt. Normal poppies are herbaceous annual, biennial or short-lived perennial plants. This is also the source of the crude drug "opium" which contains powerful medicinal alkaloids such as heroin and morphine. The specific kind of poppy in Oz is a rare magical species type of flower which all happen to hold an extra strong Papaver somniferum within its core and scented petals which produces edible seeds. They are attractive to the eye, soothing to the smell, and dangerously fatal when among too many. ![]() Yet these scarlet blossoms are mysteriously cursed. In the tale, these dangerous poppies bloom within the magical Land of Oz and are used as an obstacle of which involves the main characters and protagonist in the plot of the story, Dorothy, her pet dog Toto, and their three Oz companions the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman and Cowardly Lion. Frank Baum's first Oz book titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900 and appear in the eighth chapter of the novel The Deadly Poppy Field. "Aren't they beautiful?" the girl asked her companions, as she breathed in the spicy scent of the big, bright flowers." ― The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) " All across the meadows, many poppies blossomed, and that were so hypnotic and brilliant in color they nearly dazzled Dorothy's eyes. ![]()
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