The earliest discussions of this trick so far discovered all occurred in 1902. William H. Shaw published “The Wonderful Rising Wand” in New Ideas in Magic, 1902, p. 21; Henry Ridgely Evans included it in Magic and Its Professors, 1902, p. 176; and Ellis Stanyon advertized “The New Mesmerised Wand” in Magic, Vol. 2 No. 6, Mar. 1902, p. 48.