Wand, Wend, Wind

A 9000 year old 'magic wand' found in Tell Qarassa, Southern Syria (2007-2009). The site is from the Neolithic period and may have been some of the earliest farmers. Along with the 'wand', carved with human faces, were 30 headless skeletons.

"Earlier traditions of figurative art had avoided the detailed and naturalistic representation of the human face."

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.580267


wand (n.) c.1200, from Old Norse vondr "rod, switch," (cf. Gothic wandus "rod," Middle Swedish vander), from Proto-Germanic *wend- "to turn," see wind (v.)). The notion is of a bending, flexible stick. Cf. cognate Old Norse veggr, Old English wag "wall," Old Saxon, Dutch wand, Old High German want, German Wand "wall," originally "wickerwork for making walls," or "wall made of wattle-work" (an insight into early Germanic domestic architecture). Magic wand is attested from c.1400 and shows the etymological sense of "suppleness" already had been lost.


http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=wand&searchmode=none



Wand - Wind (as in 'to wind a watch', a spinning motion) - Wind (as in a winding wind, a tornado?)



switch (n.) 
1590s, "slender riding whip," probably from a Flemish or Low German word akin to Middle Dutch swijch "bough, twig," or swutsche, variant of Low German zwukse "long thin stick, switch," from Germanic base *swih- (cf. Old High German zwec "wooden peg," German Zweck "aim, design," originally "peg as a target," Zwick "wooden peg"), perhaps connected with PIE root *swei- (2) "to swing, bend, to turn." 



http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=switch&allowed_in_frame=0

Wand - Switch (as in to switch 'on' or 'off'')


A stick that switches 'on' and 'off' the wind?