Greenman's Crafts

From - http://www.dynionmwyn.net/tylwythteg/ogham.html

On the left is the Ogham (pronounced "Ohm") alphabet. The Druids, Britons, Cymry, Picts and the ancient Irish Celts used this form of writing for centuries. It was used up until about the fifth century CE. It consisted of a vertical line with the appropriate dots and dashes. The alphabet was named after Ogham, the Celtic god of literature, who some believe actually created it. It was used on the edges of burial stones and boundary markers. The surviving examples of ogham are on large standing stones. There are almost 400 known Ogham inscriptions in Ireland, most of which are located in the southwest of the country. The ogham alphabet contains twenty letters and is read from the bottom up.

A staff has simple blunt ends. Traditionally, a stang is a staff with a forked top. The two prongs symbolize the union of the masculine (the pole) with the feminine (the fork). For others, the two prongs represents the Horned God of the Wooded Wild, Cernunnous, or the British God Baccus. Some witches place antlers on a staff to serve as prongs.