Baum Character Registry · Animal / creature
Wildcat
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-0204
- Registry ID
- char-0204
- Canonical display name
- Wildcat
- Naming status
- Proper named / textual designation
- Character type
- Animal / creature
- Participation
- Narrative / historical individual
- First matched appearance
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · Ch. 9
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
hen he heard a low growl, and turning his head (which worked beautifully on hinges) he saw a strange beast come bounding over the grass toward them. It was, indeed, a great yellow Wildcat, and the Woodman thought it must be chasing something, for its ears were lying close to its head and its mouth was wide open, showing two rows of ugly teeth, while its red eyes glowed like balls of fire. As it came nearer the Tin Woodman s