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Two out of the three witches in Oz remain nameless in the original 1900 book edition, and in the beloved 1939 film version, of 'The Wizard of Oz'. They simply are referred to as the Wicked Witches of the East and of the West. The third witch has the name of Glinda the Good.

In the book, there's a fourth witch, the Good Witch of the North. The movie combines her position description with the book's presentation of Glinda as being from the South. So the movie turns Glinda into the Good Witch of the North, and eliminates any and all reference to the South.

The fourth witch may or may not be nameless in the book. Later in the book, there's talk of a powerful sorceress named Gayelette, in the north. So she may or may not be one and the same as the elderly, unnamed witch that Dorothy Gale meets shortly after her farmhouse kills the Wicked Witch of the East.

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