# What to do with a staff

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**Created:** [April 21, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/what-to-do-with-a-staff/9060 "2021-04-21T03:55:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![BryWisteria](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/brywisteria/32/1632_2.png) [@BryWisteria](https://forum.spells8.com/u/BryWisteria)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/what-to-do-with-a-staff/9060/2 "2021-04-21T06:34:14Z")

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Greetings, @corey1!

As far as witchy tools of the trade go, there have been several discussions about [besoms](https://forum.spells8.com/t/how-to-use-besoms-broomsticks/4269) (broomsticks) 🧹, [wands](https://forum.spells8.com/t/tips-for-making-a-wand/4884) ✨, and [athames](https://forum.spells8.com/t/does-an-athame-have-to-have-a-double-blade/8689) 🗡, but not too much talk about staffs. High time to change that! 😁

As someone who studied Naginata in university, I am also really interested in staffwork and how this tool could be used to help channel magick! 🤩

In terms of making and consecrating a staff, I would imagine it could be done in the same way a wand is consecrated:

[![Create-Consecrate-Magic-Wand-Wicca-360x240](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/2X/5/595c8e460bfb3d581e1e2e7560369e6d74bc1ba0.jpeg)  
How to Make and Consecrate a Witch Wand](https://spells8.com/make-consecrate-witch-wand/)

As for usage, I think there is something unique and special about staffwork, as a staff can bridge the gap between wand invoking and athame evoking.

> The wand is normally used to _evoke,_ that is, **peacefully invite benign spirits and forces to join our ritual** and we ask for their help on our spellwork. The athame, on the other hand, is a more aggresive tool, that can _invoke,_ that is, **command or order a certain spirit to do what we want**. In this way, the athame involves a more assertive approach
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> [From Spells8 [Witch Wands](https://spells8.com/make-consecrate-witch-wand/)]

Looking at a staff, it has the graceful appearance of a long wand while also having the ability to be handled as a weapon (both offensive and in self-defense) in the same way as an athame dagger. This is to say: a staff takes both of these properties as a happy middle ground- **a staff is an ideal tool for both invoking and evoking**.

Aside from being really cool, staffs have their benefits- but it must be said that they may not be well-suited for a witch practicing in a confined space 😅

Good luck with your staff work, Corey! Blessed be ❤

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