It is a world-wide characteristic of the Earth Mother to appear anon as a baleful hag, anon as a lovely maid, and in all probability to "Maid Margaret that was so meeke and milde," may be attributed the adjective _meek_. In London an ass, in Cockney parlance, is a _moke_; Christ was said to ride upon an ass as symbolic of his meekness, and as already noted Christ by the Gnostics was represented as ass-headed. The worship of the Golden Ass persisted in Europe until a comparatively late period; a _jenny_ is a female moke, a jackass is the masculine of Jenny. At St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall is a Jack the Giant-Killer's Well. The French name Michelet means "little Michael," and that Great Michael was Cain the Wandering One is implied by the tradition that St. Kayne visited St. Michael's Mount, and conferred certain powers upon the stone seat or Kader Mighel situated so dizzily amid the crags. The orthodoxy of this St. Kayne--who appears again at Keynsham--was evidently more than suspect, and according to Norden "this Kayne is said to be a woman-saynte, but it better resembleth _kayne_, the devil who had the shape of a man". At Keynsham St. Kayne is popularly supposed to have turned serpents into stone, and there is no doubt that his or her name was intimately associated with the serpent. The Celtic names Kean and Kenny are translated to mean _vast_, but in Cornish _ken_ meant pity, and _ken_, _cunning_, and _canny_ all imply knowledge and deep wisdom. In Welsh, _cain_ means _sun_ and also _fair_; _candere_, to glow, is, of course, connected with _candescent_, _candid_, and _candour_. The seat on St. Michael's Tower is the counterpart to Maggie Figgie's Chair, which is near the village of St. Levan, and in the previous chapter it was seen that _Levan_ or _Elvan_ was a synonym for _elban_ or _Alban_. The family name at St. Michael's Mount is St. Levan, and the usual abode of Maggie Figgie is assigned to the adjacent village of St. Levan. The chief fact recorded of St. Levan is his cell shown at Bodellen, near which is his seat--a rock split _in two_. He is also associated with a chad fish, entitled "chuck child," to account for which a ridiculous story has been concocted to the effect that St. Levan once caught a chad, which _choked_ a child. Like the cod the chad was perhaps so named because of its amazing fecundity, and the term _chuck child_ was probably once Jack, the child Michael, or the giant-killing Jack, whose well stands on St. Michael's Mount. It is not improbable that "chuck," like Jack, is an inflexion of Gog, and that it is an almost pure survival of the British _uch uch_ or _high high_. The great festival of Gog and Magog in Cockaigne was unquestionably on Lord Mayor's Show Day, and this used originally to fall--or rather the Lord Mayor was usually chosen--on Michaelmas Day.[224]