Ochre Jelly Inspiration?

[Zenopus]

A new blog post noting the similarities between the Ochre Jelly and a jelly creature in the de Camp & Carter Conan story, The Curse of the Monolith (aka Conan and the Cenotaph)

zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2018/08/ochre-jelly-inspiration.html

[Punkrabbitt]

I always thought it was the movie "The Blob"

[Zenopus]

For the Black Pudding, sure. I mention that in the article. But what inspired Gygax and/or Arneson to add the other varieties?

[Zenopus]

I added a few more quotes to my post where Gygax attributes the Black Pudding to Arneson and claims the Ochre Jelly as his own.

[Punkrabbitt]

Aug 29, 2018 10:59:16 GMT -6 Zenopus said:

For the Black Pudding, sure. I mention that in the article. But what inspired Gygax and/or Arneson to add the other varieties?

I somehow missed that in my first reading. Brain damage o.0 The red of The Blob is very similar to the red ochre pigment used in Africa as body paint, which led me to my conclusion on that

[Zenopus]

I realize that there are different shades of ochre, but the most typical is yellowish, and I've always taken the ochre jelly to be that color. The description in OD&D and the AD&D Monster Manual doesn't specify further, but in the DMG Appendix K, Gygax lists ochre under shades of yellow, so that would suggest what color he was referring to.

[Punkrabbitt]

Zenopus, you are far better at collating information than my 10-year old brain was!