 Waite provided the general guidelines for the deck (including the names of the four suits, and thus the suit of wands), and detailed guidelines for the designs of the major arcana, and he hired Smith to do the painting, and to make original artwork for the minor arcana.Waite instructed Smith to not paint actual "wands" in the wand cards, but rather to paint large tree trunk staffs with some foliage growing on them, so as to make an association between wands and Eliphas Levi's phrase "the flowering rod of Aaron" from Levi's fake fragment of "The Key of Solomon".The concept of magic wands was used by the ancient greek writer Homer, in his books "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey".