socks, and they disappear under the house and the shoes are transposed to Dorothy's feet. In the original book, the Wicked Witch of the West showed no remorse for the death of her counterpart in the East, nor was she noted to be related to her in any way. She was only interested in the magic footwear (Silver Shoes in the book; Ruby slippers in the 1939 film). In Alexander Melentyevich Volkov's The Wizard of the Emerald City, The Witch's name is Gingema. Like in the 1939 movie, the two Wicked Witches are sisters. In Magic Land, she is summoning a magical hurricane to destroy all humanity. However, the Good Witch of the North learns of her schemes and changes the spell to only affect one house and drop it on Gingema's head. Unlike in Baum's books, while being the formal ruler of the Munchkins, she interfered little in their lives, and only demanded that people collect food for her. Since her food was snakes, leeches, spiders, and other similarly disgusting creatures that the Munchkins were afraid of, that was nevertheless a heavy burden for them. The name Gingema was also used for the Wicked Witch of the East in March Laumer's novel Aunt Em and Uncle Henry in Oz. In the 1974 Broadway musical The Wiz and its film version (1978), the Wicked Witch of the East is named Evvamene ("Ever mean") and terrorizes the Munchkins before Dorothy's adventure in Oz begins. In Mad Mad Mad Monsters, it was mentioned by the bellhop Norman to Count Dracula and Claude the Invisible Man that he heard a rumor that the Wicked Witch of the East would come out of the cake for the Monster's bachelor party at midnight. This actually happens at midnight as the Wicked Witch of the East (vocal effects provided by Rhoda Mann) emerges and flies around on her broomstick. In the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by author Gregory Maguire, and in the hit musical version, the Wicked Witch of the East is portrayed as a beautiful but physically disabled young woman called Nessarose Thropp; Nessa is the sister of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, whose paralysis is caused by her father's attempt to make her mother eat milkflowers (in the play) or the mother herself taking a special medicine she acquired (in the novel) to