The creepy story as I understand it is that a wicked witch chopped up of a “meat and bone” woodman (with his own ax) because he was messing around with her servant girl. Then the girl took the chopped up body parts (or maybe it was just the head) to a tinsmith who made a body of tin for the woodman. Since the Tin Woodman didn’t have a heart, he had no more interest in love or the girl and went about the business of chopping down trees.

Why did the Winkies build a magnificent tin palace for the Tin Woodman and make him their emperor?

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