Baum Character Registry · Constructed / artificial person

Scarecrow

Also called: Brown Bear

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-0176
Registry ID: char-0176
Canonical display name: Scarecrow
Naming status: Proper named / textual designation
Character type: Constructed / artificial person
Participation: Narrative / historical individual
First matched appearance: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · Ch. 3

Oz Knowledge Base

First-class Knowledge entity

This Character Registry record is a canonical first-class Knowledge entity.

Claims: 2
Relationships: 0
Historical Atlas events: 0

Canonical

The Scarecrow is a straw-stuffed figure whose painted face becomes animate and converses with Dorothy.

Canonical

The Scarecrow joins Dorothy's journey to ask Oz for brains.

Appearance Profile

Text-grounded appearance

Appearance is tracked only where Baum supplies textual evidence; absence of description is not filled from illustration traditions.

Rule: appearance may change between books, chapters, and events; unstated details are not imported from illustration traditions.

Appearance Timeline

Appearance states

transformation

Brown Bear

Mrs. Yoop transforms the Scarecrow into a Brown Bear.

The Tin Woodsman of Oz

Baum evidence

First matched textual evidence

3. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow When Dorothy was left alone she began to feel hungry. So she went to the cupboard and cut herself some bread, which she spread with butter. She gave some to Toto, and taking a pail from the shelf she carried it down to the little brook

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