The story of Vidforull or Magus gains in interest in view of his mystic age of 330, or ten times 33, and the emerging-ex-post incident may have some connection with the nomenclature of the flame-flowered staff or post now termed a Hollyhock, or _Holy Hock_. One of the miracles attributed to St. Kit--a miracle which we are told was the means of converting _eight_ thousand men to Christianity--was the budding of his staff. "Christopher set his staff in the earth, and when he arose on the morn he found his staff like a palmier bearing flowers, leaves, and dates." Kit or Kate is the same word as "Kaad," and there is a serpent represented on the post or staff at St. Alban's Kaadman, figured on p. 110. The serpent was universally the symbol of subtlety and deep wisdom, and among the Celts it was, because it periodically sloughed its skin, regarded as the emblem of regeneration and rejuvenescence.[214] The _Hawk_, which is the remaining symbol of the Kaadman (Fig. 16), was the _uch_ or high-flying bird, which soared sun-wise and hovered overworld eyeing or ogling the below with penetrating and all-seeing vision. It is difficult to see any rational connection between _hawk_ and _heave_--a connection which for some mysterious reason the authorities connote--but the hawk was unquestionably an emblem of the Most High. A hawker is a harokel, Hercules, or merchant, and with _Maga_ may be connoted _magazine_, which means storehouse. In Celtic _mako_ or _maga_ means "I feed"; in Welsh _magu_ means _breed_, and to _nurse_; in Welsh _magad_ is _brood_. It is to this root that obviously may be assigned the Gaelic Mac or Mc, which means "breed of" or "children of". In the Isle of Man, the inhabitants claimed to be descended from the fairies, whence perhaps the MacAuliffes of Albany originally claimed to be children of the Elf. Among the Berbers of Africa _Mac_ has precisely the same meaning as among the Gaels, and among the Tudas of India _mag_ also means _children of_. "Surely after this," says a commentator, "the McPhersons and McGregors of our Highland glens need not hesitate to claim as Scotch cousins the inhabitants of the Indian peninsula."[215]