Baum Character Registry · Animal / creature
Crab
A canonical individual in the Baum-only Character Census. Appearance evidence is chronological and text-grounded.
Proper named / textual designationNarrative / historical individual
Registry
Character record
- Knowledge ID
- CHAR-0037
- Registry ID
- char-0037
- Canonical display name
- Crab
- Naming status
- Proper named / textual designation
- Character type
- Animal / creature
- Participation
- Narrative / historical individual
- First matched appearance
- The Marvelous Land of Oz · Ch. 1
Oz Knowledge Base
First-class Knowledge entity
This Character Registry record is a canonical first-class Knowledge entity.
- Claims
- 0
- Relationships
- 0
- Historical Atlas events
- 0
Appearance Profile
Text-grounded appearance
Appearance is tracked only where Baum supplies textual evidence; absence of description is not filled from illustration traditions.
Appearance Timeline
Appearance states
No enriched appearance state yet. The registry deliberately records “not yet extracted” rather than inferring hair, eyes, clothing, size, or materials.
Baum evidence
First matched textual evidence
him across. As for the pumpkinheaded loon who accompanies you, let him sink or swim it won't matter greatly which." "Don't worry about me," said Jack, smiling pleasantly upon the crabbed ferryman; "I'm sure I ought to float beautifully." Tip thought the experiment was worth making, and the Saw-Horse, who did not know what danger meant, offered no objections whatever. So the boy led it down into the water and climbed up