History of wand usage was: Wand-free magic ?

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

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Julie writes:
<< Well further research of wand usage brings up Lord Voldemort.  It also
brings up Odysseus.  In specific:  
Circe 
The next stop was the island of Circe (Aeaea), where Odysseus sent a
scouting party ahead of the rest of the group. She invited the
scouting party to a feast, the food laced with one of her magical
potions, and she then changed all the men into pigs with a wand after
they gorged themselves on it. >>

Me:

GREAT reference, thanks, Ms. World History major!  I have a copy of a 
Waterhouse painting called "Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses" hanging in my 
apartment.  I love Waterhouse, and I obviously figured Circe was a character 
in The Odyssey, but I never knew the exact story behind it.  

So we have a story of a wand being used during the time of the Trojan War, 
circa 1200 BC, but the question is not what year the story is taking place, 
but what year the story was written.  Homer was retelling an old myth in The 
Odyssey, wasn't he?  It doesn't prove that wands were used at the time of the 
Trojan War, only that the author knew of the usage of wands in his own time 
and gave his sorceress one in the story.  And I'm pretty sure Homer was 
before the time of Socrates even, so that would mean wands were used way 
before 382 BC, therefore Ollivander couldn't have made the first wands.

Audra