While renovating a building in Cleethorpes, a seaside town on the east coast of England, workers found an old bottle crammed inside of a wall. The glass vessel — dirty, but intact — was sealed with a ...

Attention, my pretties, it appears that the Wicked Witch of the West’s iconic hourglass has found a new home. The signature Wizard of Oz prop recently sold for $495,000.Heritage Auctions, an ...

An hourglass used by the Wicked Witch of the West to taunt Dorothy mid-way through 'The Wizard of Oz' has sold for nearly half-a-million dollars at auction, Smithsonian Magazine reports.

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.

More than 50 years after Hamilton wore toxic copper-based face paint to appear green in The Wizard of Oz, Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ...

The mean, green witch and the Evil Queen have thrilled generations of moviegoers. But they also reflect cultural fears about aging and powerful women. HISTORY & CULTURE ...