Country of the Scoodlers
The barren rocky hills and the hollow, bowl-shaped rock mountain beyond a black gulf where the two-faced, head-throwing Scoodlers live in narrow stone houses around their soup kettle, on the road just short of the Deadly Desert.
First named in The Road to Oz, ch. 9
Our friends had come to a little hollow in the hills, and the place where they now stood was surrounded by jagged peaks of rock, except where the road ran through.
Where this is
placed Beyond the desert worked out
read out of the chapters cited on this page, not stated in any one sentence of them
The Scoodlers' hills lie on the road before the travelers reach the Deadly Desert and its warning sign in Road to Oz ch.11, so they are outside Oz among the wayside countries.
What the books say it is
inhabitants scoodlers, living in narrow rock houses around the dome 1 chapter
All around the circular space were built rock houses, set close together, each with a door in the front wall. None of these houses was more than six feet wide, but the Scoodlers were thin people sidewise and did not need much room.
The Road to Oz, ch. 10
danger the soup kettle the scoodlers cook captives in 1 chapter
It made Dorothy shudder to see a huge iron kettle suspended by a stout chain in the middle of the place, and underneath the kettle a great heap of kindling wood and shavings, ready to light.
The Road to Oz, ch. 10
appearance a low rock mountain like a huge bowl turned upside down 1 chapter
But the creatures led their captives away from the rocks and the road, down the hill by a side path until they came before a low mountain of rock that looked like a huge bowl turned upside down.
The Road to Oz, ch. 10