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Yay! Etymology!

I made a gargoyle in ceramics class when I was 12! It probably counted more as a grotesque according to this post but I put little holes in its mouth and under its wings to make openings into the hollow centre.

I might be hallucinating like ChatGPT but I'm pretty sure they defended castles by draining burning oil rather than water to set castle invaders on fire.

My gargoyle was a hippocampus btw. I'm pretty sure that it's disappeared permanently 😞 but I might have photos somewhere.

Sedan Castle, France.

City gate of La Neuveville, Switzerland.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yesuitus2001

View of Nidau Castle from the south, Switzerland. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pierre_Bona

Schloss Ahrensburg, Germany. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Holger.Ellgaard

Blicking Hall, Norfolk. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DeFacto

Eilean Donan Castle https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Diliff

Château de Pau (1843) lithograph by Eugène de Malbos. Bibliothèques de Toulouse.

Resurrection Church in Kostroma (1910), photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. Library of Congress.

Örebro Castle at Svartån

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ArildV

Aachen Cathedral at night as seen from Annastraße. Photo by Christian Wehrle

The Château of Brignac, Seiches-sur-le-Loir, France.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brignac01.JPG

Peckforton Castle, Cheshire. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bs0u10e01

Schwerin Castle on its island at Lake Schwerin. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WorldKnowledge0815

Dieveniškės church, Šalčininkai district, Lithuania. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Juste