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Nowadays, it's not uncommon for witches to be portrayed as having green skin. Did this portrayal begin with MGM's The Wizard of Oz (1939), or was MGM drawing on an already common trope? I see that the Wicked Witch of the West didn't have green skin in W. W. Denslow's illustrations for Baum's books.

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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