A real-life witch has revealed the one spell she refuses to cast – insisting “it’s wrong.” Lindsay Squire, 41, has been a ...

In one iteration of the story, the Wicked Witch sends 40 wolves to hunt down Dorothy and her friends, but Tinman, leaning on his past life as a lumberjack (aptly named Nick Chopper), deals with ...

Elphaba, the name of the Wicked Witch of the West, is derived from the original creator’s initials. Go on, sound it out – L, F, B.

Those Wicked Witches of the West have little in common with the one that L. Frank Baum created in his 1900 children's classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Baum's witch wasn't green, for starters ...

No witch trying to shove Hansel and Gretel into the oven. Baum didn't want that kind of witch. So he and Denslow tamed her. Not least by making her, in the illustrations, just Dorothy's size.

Long before the new movie "Wicked" made a sympathetic character of the Wicked Witch of the West, she was played by actress Margaret Hamilton in the classic film, The Wizard of Oz. But it was not ...

She’s that girl. Cynthia Erivo transformed into Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, in “Wicked” thanks to the film’s makeup artist and hairstylist Frances Hannon.

And it's not because of a curse either. The so-called Wicked Witch of the West in "Wicked: Part I," now out in theaters everywhere, is green because her mother drank a green elixir before her birth.

It was Margaret Hamilton's unforgettable performance, in the 1939 film, that made The Wicked Witch of the West a central Oz character. As she has remained, ever since.

MARGARET HAMILTON: (As the Wicked Witch of the West) I'll get you, my pretty. And your little dog, too (laughter). ULABY: The witch disappears in a puff of orange smoke, but the fire was all too real.