 In C. S. Lewis's 1950 novel "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", the White Witch's most feared weapon is her wand, whose magic is capable of turning people into stone.This, again, employs the Odysseyan motif of an evil female witch who uses a magic wand to maliciously transform her victims.In the mid 1900s, the MGM and Disney media companies popularized magic wands via four films in which wands were wielded by benevolent female fairy characters.