Baum Character Registry · Animal / creature
Old Crow
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-0243
- Registry ID
- char-0243
- Canonical display name
- Old Crow
- Naming status
- Proper named / textual designation
- Character type
- Animal / creature
- Participation
- Narrative / historical individual
- First matched appearance
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · Ch. 4
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
the cornfield, but as soon as they saw me they flew away again, thinking I was a Munchkin; and this pleased me and made me feel that I was quite an important person. By and by an old crow flew near me, and after looking at me carefully he perched upon my shoulder and said: "`I wonder if that farmer thought to fool me in this clumsy manner. Any crow of sense could see that you are only stuffed with straw.' Then he hopped do