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In modern culture, they typically symbolize demons or other demonic creatures. However, in medieval times, they acted as scarecrows, in order to keep birds from perching on and defacing buildings with heights that would be difficult to reach. Western culture especially has taken the idea of these gargoyles and turned them into demonic symbols, probably due to our puritan origins. Originally, gargoyles were protectors, one may say, from birds.

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