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The Wizard's Staff: Who uses it and does it work?

  
 
Spyder Todd 2008
23:58 / 25.06.03
I resently purchased a hand-craved wooden staff with a marble on it at a rein-festival I dropped by. They were advertising them as Wizard's staffs. Now, I know that you can charge anything magically yourself, as long as you give them power, but it made me curious as to who uses staffs in magic, what they use them for, and how effective they think the staffs are.
 
 
Professor Silly
04:19 / 26.06.03
The staff represents Jupiter-type energies.
I'm not all that into planetary workings yet, so I don't have one.
 
 
Sha Jotaro
16:46 / 26.06.03
Eh. A staff is, for the most part, a big wand.
 
 
Vadrice
19:39 / 26.06.03
I would say that a staff is quite different than a wand. A wand has always been a functional object in my eye. Like a magician's finger. A staff, however, has all the cadences and trappings of status.
A staff is a symbol of shamonic majesty- with all the pros and cons entailed.
A wand is just a magic finger.

Besides, In cock symbology a staff is much bigger.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
20:08 / 26.06.03
And because all historical magicians were male, that's how that came about? Hmm. Well, symbols of status are all well and good, but has anyone managed to get a staff to do anything?
 
 
penitentvandal
20:15 / 26.06.03
I imagine they're very useful for hitting people.

I actually used a Jelly Belly jellybean cane as a staff for a while, when I was on an Erisian tip. I thought it was quite a nice substitute for the more serious Gandalfery type staff. Which I think tends to make one look stupid anyway.

And, continuing the staff/penis imagery, it needn't be said that it's not how big it is, it's how you use it. I did a lot of serious magic in late 2001, and I was using a fucking cocktail stirrer as a wand for most of that period.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
19:53 / 27.06.03
hitting people is fun....
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
19:54 / 27.06.03
You shouldn't do it, but sometimes you just feel better afterwards. But back to the topic...
 
 
arcboi
21:08 / 27.06.03
Obviously, as has been pointed out, size doesn't matter although my staff is much bigger than any of your ones.
 
  
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