In Jerusalem Delivered the Hermit gives Charles the Dane and Ubaldo a wand which, being shaken, infused terror into all who saw it.
In the Faërve Queene, the palmer who accompanies Sir Guyon has a staff of like virtue, made of the same wood as Mercury’s caduceus.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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