ᚎ Straif — blackthorn / glands
Tension and release
Straif, rendered as blackthorn, is assigned to the glands in some modern Ogham anatomy tables, where hidden regulation mirrors the tree's guarded symbolism. Because this is a particularly variable modern attribution, the upper-abdominal anchor is broad and its uncertainty is high.
Point 14 of 15 in Celtic Ogham — tree-letter body correspondences
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Book of Ballymote (primary_canonical)
Supports Straif/blackthorn in the Ogham list, not an endocrine map.
Modern neo-pagan Ogham body-correspondence tables (secondary)
Supports the blackthorn/glands association, which is among the more variable modern attributions.