...and off on a tangent, now I know why toddy would have known about 'him'....thought of himself as a bit of an 'adder'?....see previous notes upon maths conflated with magic...mathematicians and magicians etc etc....go figure:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1vLNlXWKyhrzHxLYDSGRtB0/pheasant-vs-adder-the-ancient-vendetta-between-unlikely-foes