Crown of Thorns
a thorn in one's side or flesh a source of irritation: he was sufficiently bright at school to become a thorn in the side of his maths teacher [Old English]
#Thorn#
The runic letter รพ originally representing either sound of the Modern English th, as in the and thin, used in Old English and Middle English manuscripts.
Thorn in the Lion's paw - Aesop
The Apostle Paul's - Thorn in the Flesh
John the Evangelist describes it thus (KJV, ch. 19):
"Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe .....
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