Magic wand

Presentation

Certain craftsmen created objects to join this topic resulting from the “Merveilleux”. The people autochtones, some Shaman S, of the apprentice-wizards or the practitioners of the Wicca can use sticks of word or crimped crystal rods compared sometimes to “magic wands” in their rites. Not to confuse with the rod of the Waterfinder which has two branches with an end.

The Hermetic Tradition

In the Operative Magic represented by the Tradition Hermétique, the magic wand represents Volonté, Pouvoir and Force of the Magus in harmony with one, several or the totality of the Spheres of the Tree of Life Kabbalistique. The rod represents le to be able of Mage and often has a property specific to beneficial goal: responsible for the energy of the Elements - Fire, Air, Water or Ground - Universal Electromagnetism, of Vitality, or any quality chosen by the Magus.

Literary tradition

the Odyssée of Homère tells already that Circé made drink a beverage with the people before striking them its rod for the to transform into Pourceau X. Ulysses, protected by a grass given by Hermes, escapes the magic spell. The instrument finds in the accounts Merveilleux Moyen-âge, for example in the Romance of Renart where God gives to Adam and Eve a rod which, by striking the sea, creates animals (from which the fox will leave). With the XVIIe century, Charles Perrault provides with them the godmothers fairies with Peau with Ass, Cendrillon and Sleeping Beauty in the Tales of my mother Oye , allowing them the realization of various wonders.

The magic wand becomes the essential accessory of the fairies and the wizards, the object which channels magic energy and by which the magic passes. The White witch of Narnia makes use of a long rod gilded to transform the living beings into Statue S in the Lion, the White witch and the Magic closet . In the Lord of the rings , it takes the shape of a stick carrying light for Gandalf (whose name as old man norrois means besides Elfe with the stick ). In the cycle of Harry Potter, the rods make it possible to throw all kinds of fates.

Tales of Perrault

Charles Perrault limits the use of the rod (which it does not qualify at any magic time of ) to three of its tales. One thus finds it in Peau of Ass where it appears for the first time, in Sleeping Beauty and finally in Cendrillon. In the three cases, the rod is the prerogative of the godmother fairy, who uses about it for the exclusive benefit of her goddaughter and protected. If it does not modify the beings, it contravenes the fundamental laws of physics and biology.

Skin of Ass

The cassette of Skin of Ass circulates thus under the ground and appears with the request:

“Here, continues it, a large cassette

Where we will put on all your clothes,

Your mirror, your toilet,

I give you encor my Rod;

the cassette will go on your same way

Toujours under the hidden Earth;

And when you want to open it,

Hardly my stick of the Earth will have touched

That at once in your eyes it will come to be offered”.

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty plunges with its entourage in a one hundred years sleep, whereas an exuberant vegetation and protective growth spontaneously around the castle:

“As it was largely far-sighted, (the godmother) thought that, when the Princess has suddenly awaked, it would be well embarrassed all alone in this old Castle: here what it did. It touched its rod all that was in the Castle (…). As soon as it had touched them, they fell asleep all, to awake only at the same time as their Mistress, in order to be very ready to serve it when it would need some”.

Cinderella

In Cinderella, the pumpkin changes into fits with body, the animals as servants and the old clothes out of cloth clothes of gold and money chamarrés of precious stones, but for a few hours only, the time of the conquest of the prince during the ball.

“Cinderella went at once to gather most beautiful (pumpkin) whom it could find, and carried it to its Godmother, not being able to guess how a pumpkin could make it go to the Ball. Its Godmother dug it, and having left only the bark, its rod struck it, and the pumpkin was changed at once into beautiful fits with body very gilded”.

Current expression

In the language running, “of a blow of magic wand” means: “as by enchantment” (ex: work will not be made a blow of magic wand ).

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