Each year villagers sacrificed a convict in hopes of appeasing the beast. The village was saved by a brave priest named St. Romanis who, in exchange for his services, asked that a church be built in his honor and all citizens baptized. A battle was fought and the priest was victorious. He dragged La Gargouille's body back to the village and set it aflame. That is how the first gargoyle water spout was created.
Artists continue to create new gargoyles, grotesques and chimeras.
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