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About the Author
The silly and sleepless Mistress McCutchan, otherwise known in the real world simply as Laura, created Morbid Outlook in August of 1992, while still a gothling in high school.
She is a freelance web designer, but also makes time to also design and make all sorts of stuff, DJ, dance as one-half of Serpentina as well as direct her Toronto-based troupe, The Serpentina North Ensemble. She is vegan, but not one of the pushy ones. When not working like a maniac, she can be found becoming one with the couch, especially if Three’s Company is on.
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Gargoyles
Mistress McCutchan
Gargoyles
were originally water spouts, especially ones projecting from a gutter and intended to throw the water away from the walls and foundations. The word comes from the French “gargouille” which means “throat or pipe.”
In medieval architecture, the gargoyles were numerous because of the many gutters which were carried on the tops of flying buttresses. They were often very decorative, consisting of stone images of grotesque animals, and the like, or in smaller buildings, of iron or lead.
They later became mainly architectural ornaments and were designed in various ways as grotesquely carved human or animal figures. They are said to serve as protectors; grotesque in appearance to frighten evil spirits.
Below are several thumbnails of ornamental gargoyles from a really great book called Over the Door. Each of these gargoyles can be located around town in New York City.
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