<P> The season 9 episode "Slumber Party" of the series Supernatural features Dorothy and the Wicked Witch . Dorothy, here portrayed as a hard - as - nails fighter, realizes the shoes are the only thing that can kill the seemingly invincible witch . At one point, she admits she never really wore the iconic shoes, having considered it "tacky" to wear the shoes of a dead witch . Near the end of the episode, Charlie Bradbury uses the shoes to kill the Wicked Witch and foil her plot to bring her armies to Earth and take over the world . </P> <P> According to the revisionist version of the Oz history chronicled in Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the slippers were given to Nessarose, the future Wicked Witch of the East, by her father . They were constructed with handmade glass beads and reflected many different colors in the lighting, giving them an almost chameleon effect . After being enchanted by Elphaba's old best friend and roommate Glinda (the Good Witch of the North), they become items of power that allow the armless and handicapped Nessarose to magically stand and walk independently and without any additional support . In the musical adaptation, Wicked, it is Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who enchants the shoes, giving crippled Nessarose the ability to walk without a wheelchair . </P> <P> The Ruby Slippers of Oz (Tale Weaver Publishing, 1989) by Rhys Thomas is a history of the famous shoes and Kent Warner's part in it . </P> <P> The progressive band Electric Light Orchestra used a frame from the 1939 film on the cover of their fourth studio album Eldorado, released in 1974 . The cover was laid out by Sharon Osbourne (then known as Sharon Arden) and the picture was printed in reverse: the shoes point left in the film . </P>

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