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The Forest of Burzee is a fictional fairy-tale land originated by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz. ==History== Baum first introduced the Forest of Burzee in his 1902 book ''The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus'', where the fictional setting receives its most extensive treatment and detailed description.〔L. Frank Baum, ''The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus'', Indianapolis, Bowen-Merril, 1902.〕 The opening chapter of Baum's ''Queen Zixi of Ix'' is also set in the Forest of Burzee.〔L. Frank Baum, ''Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak'', New York, Century Company, 1905.〕 A small cluster of Baum short stories also employ the Forest of Burzee as a setting, or at least involved the Forest in some way; these include "A Kidnapped Santa Claus," "The Runaway Shadows," and "Nelebel's Fairyland." Baum pictures Burzee as a great forest, with "big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it;" a place of "queer, gnarled limbs" and "bushy foliage" where the rare sunbeams cast "weird and curious shadows over the mosses, the lichens and the drifts of dried leaves."〔''The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus'', Chapter 1.〕 Among the "giant oak and fir trees" are clearings where "the grass grew green and soft as velvet."〔''Queen Zixi of Ix'', Chapter 1.〕 The Forest is populated by Fairies, ruled by a queen (either Zurline or Lulea, depending upon the specific work), along with Nymphs, Gnomes, Pixies, and species of beings invented by Baum consisting of Ryls, Knooks, and Gigans. At the east of the Forest of Burzee is the Laughing Valley which was empty for years until Santa Claus built his house there. He still lives there to this day. Burzee is not an entirely benign place however. It contains predators like Shiegra the Lioness (from ''The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus'') and Kahtah the Tiger (from "Runaway Shadows"). At first, Burzee had no direct connection with Oz. A link was forged in the fifth Oz book ''The Road to Oz'', in which visitors from Burzee attend the grand celebration that closes that book.〔L. Frank Baum, ''The Road to Oz'', Chicago, Reilly & Britton, 1909; Chapters 22-24.〕 The map of Oz and its neighboring lands that appeared in ''Tik-Tok of Oz'' included the Forest as one of those border regions. Eventually, Royal Historian Jack Snow featured the Forest of Burzee in his first Oz book, ''The Magical Mimics in Oz'', in 1946. Later ''Oz'' authors occasionally mention Burzee; David Hardenbrook's ''The Unknown Witches of Oz'' is one example. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Forest of Burzee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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