After the battle, the creature was set ablaze and its head and neck survived to be mounted on a building. This practice spread and La Gargouille may have become the model for gargoyles. Some believe that gargoyles were inspired directly from a passage in the bible. Some also believe that gargoyles were inspired by the skeletal remains of prehistoric beasts such as dinosaurs and giant reptiles. Still others will argue that they are vestiges of Peganism from an age when God would be heard in trees and river plains.
Gargoyles can be dragons, men, cats, bats, frogs, serpents and countless others.
They are still being carved today with many having a modern, whimsical theme. Gargoyles have been with man for hundreds of years, and they still seem to inspire the imagination of modern society.