Historically: staffs as totems of power are as ancient as civilization itself, used by powerful pagan shaman to direct their spirit magic. They still remain in British folk dance but have diminished to be no more than the Morris Dance leader's staff of office.
In myth and tale: only White Wizards and White Witches of great and goodly power could master a Staff of Magic. If they were not good of heart the Staff of Power would turn them to evil, twisting their outer form into the ugly being that was within.
76cm / 30" long