Walking stick Asian, made of bamboo, also a riding crop. Such a stick was owned by Charlie Chaplin's character The Tramp. Malacca – Malay stick made of rattan palms. Pike Staff – Pointed at the end for slippery surfaces. Scout staff – Tall stick traditionally carried by Boy Scouts, which has a number of uses in an emergency Waddy – Australian Aboriginal walking stick or war club, about one metre in length, sometimes with a stone head affixed with string and beeswax. Ziegenhainer – Knotty German stick, made from European cornel, also used as a melee weapon by a duellist's second. The
The Magic Walking Stick had made to Lady Cynthia Asquith's short story collection "Sails of Gold" (1927). Its genesis was a game that Buchan used to play with his own children. The Magic Walking Stick The Magic Walking Stick is a 1932 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, his only novel written for children. The first edition was illustrated by John Morton Sale. The novel relates the adventures of Bill, a 13-year-old boy, and his magic walking stick that has the power to take him and whoever he is holding by the hand to any desired place, from "the blinding white sands of