Logray's magic powder

Logray's magic powder was a white powder created by the old Ewok Logray of the moon Endor's Bright Tree Village. When the young Ewoks Princess Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka and Wicket Wystri Warrick told Logray about having encountered a pair of Phlogs—giants considered by some Ewoks to be a threat to their way of life—the latter gave them two sacks containing the magic powder, claiming that putting it into the Phlogs' food would lead them to forgetting about their visit to the forest and instead becoming fearful of staying there or ever returning.

Although Kintaka and Warrick did not manage to put the powder into the giants' food, after being captured they did throw it into the Phlogs' faces, which eventually caused them to fall into deep sleep. When the giants—who in the meantime were tied up by an Ewok scouting party—later awakened, they were initially confused and then became frightened of their surroundings, ultimately running off into the forest while yelling in panic.

Description

Logray's magic powder was a fine white-colored powder created by Logray, an old Ewok who would later become the medicine man of the Bright Tree Village on^[1] the Outer Rim Territories moon Endor.^[2] According to Logray, once Phlogs^[1]—members of a species of giants that was believed to have originated off-world^[3] and whom some Ewoks considered to be a threat to their way of life—ate the powder, they would lose all memories of their visit to the side of Endor housing the Ewoks' forest and would instead become convinced that the forest was "enchanted" and dangerous to Phlogs, and they would thereafter leave and never return.^[1]

History

A risky plan

One night^[1] at some point by 4 ABY,^[4] the young Ewoks Princess Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka and Wicket Wystri Warrick relayed to Logray in his hut their discovery in the Ewoks' forest of two Phlogs. Believing that the plan of the Bright Tree Village's Chief Chirpa to send a scouting party on the following day's morning to verify the news about the Phlogs would be too late to be of any practical use, Logray gave Kintaka and Warrick each a small sack with the powder and instructed the young Ewoks to put the substance into the sleeping giants' food. Before Kintaka and Warrick could depart their village for the location where they had encountered the Phlogs, however, they were spotted by Warrick's mother and forced to go home—although the young Ewoks agreed to proceed with their plan early on the following morning. Warrick also warned Kintaka not to let her father, Chirpa, notice her sack of the magic powder.^[1]

The next day, Kintaka and Warrick went to where the two Phlogs were sleeping, but before they could put the powder into the giants' food, they inadvertently awakened the Phlogs and were soon captured. While the giants held the small Ewoks in their hands and curiously inspected them, Warrick instructed his friend to empty the contents of their respective powder sacks into the faces of their captors before they could eat the Ewoks. On the count of three, the princess and her companion threw the magic powder into the faces of the Phlogs.^[1]

Initially, the two Phlogs simply looked startled, and nothing else happened. They both then sneezed once and began attempting to rub the powder off their faces, dropping the two Ewoks to the ground in the process. Consequently, adopting an expression of utter confusion, the giants ceased moving and, after a moment, slowly crumpled to the ground and entered a state of deep sleep. At that point, Kintaka and Warrick, wanting to believe that Logray's magic powder had worked but simply being too frightened at the time to believe anything, ran away and hid themselves in the forest.^[1]

Awakening and terror

There, Kintaka and Warrick encountered the Ewok scouting party, with the princess then explaining to them her and Warrick's plan. Although the Ewok Lumat expressed doubt over the magic powder's effectiveness—pointing out both Logray's reputation of being "strange" and the possibility that the old Ewok had merely told the pair a made-up story in order to make them leave him alone—Warrick professed his confidence that the powder would work. The Ewoks then tied up the sleeping Phlogs.^[1]

The two giants eventually woke up, appearing confused at their whereabouts and tied-up state. After they effortlessly broke through their restraints, however, the two Phlogs adopted an aspect of fear. Pointing wildly at the surrounding trees, the giants staggered to their feet and, oblivious to the nearby Ewoks, turned and ran off into the woods as if they were being pursued by demons, yelling about the land they were in being "strange and evil" and expressing their urgent need to return home. Later that night at the Bright Tree Village, during the Ewok celebration over driving away the Phlogs, Logray was named the settlement's medicine man for the role his magic powder had played in that event.^[1]

Behind the scenes

Logray's magic powder appeared in How the Ewoks Saved the Trees: An Old Ewok Legend, a 1984 young reader book written by James Howe and illustrated by Walter Velez.^[1]

Appearances

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• How the Ewoks Saved the Trees: An Old Ewok Legend (First appearance)

Sources

• "Wasaka Berries and Monster Ships: Star Wars Storybook 101" — Star Wars Insider 74 (Indirect mention only)

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