Hey everyone hope you’re having yourselves a day, I’m your host Jarred Bronstein and
welcome to another video here on Life’s Biggest Questions.
Today we’ll be talking about Gargoyles.
You know the statues of those monstrous bat like things that are usually seen on churches.
Yeah those.
There was even a TV show about them way back when I was a kid.
But if they were to be real, well I feel they’d be a lot scarier.
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So for now, gargoyles.
Let’s talk about them.
What are they?
Where did they come from?
What’s their purpose?
And how would they change the world as we know it?
Let’s find out.
Let’s go way back.
We’re talking Ancient Egypt back.
Gargoyles are made and they usually take the form of a Lion’s head.
Their purpose?
To drain water from rooftops.
Yup.
They were originally made because way back when, there was no such thing as gutters which
would help get rid of the water that would build up on rooftops on rainy days or nights.
That was their sole purpose.
Then in the medieval times, cathedrals started to use them as well.
However what many people think are gargoyles are really just groutesque or chimeras.
They’re totally ornamental and have no real purpose.
This is what is seen on most churches as well, although some do still have gargoyles.
So where did this name come from?
A french legend.
The word itself, gargoyle, derives from the french legend La Gargouille, which was a horrifying
dragon that terrorized the town of Rouen.
The story goes on to explain it would swallow ships and flood the town, until a priest named
Romanus made an agreement with the people of the town.
He would take care of this monstrous beast if the people of Rouen converted to Christianity.
After they agreed, Romanus took down the beast by using the power of the cross, and then
burned the dragon alive.
However, it’s head wouldn’t burn, so the townspeople cut it off and put it on their
church.
This would now be a symbol to ward away any evil spirits or other monstrous beasts that
wanted to attack the townspeople.
As years went on, other churches would start placing gargoyles on their churches of course
to drain water, but also to act as a reminder to those who practiced.
There’s evil outside the church, but inside would be a safe haven.
Their look would also change, after these churches would mold their gargoyles to look
like the creatures Pagan tribes worshipped.
The churches did this to bring those who were Pagan to the church as well.
As Darlene Trew Crist wrote in American Gargoyles: Spirits in Stone "Churches grew in number
and influence as the pagan belief system and many of its images were absorbed into Christianity,”.
Nowadays, most of what we believe to be gargoyles, as previously mentioned are just grotesques.
They’re for show and have no real purpose.
Some are even sculpted after pop-culture icons, like Gremlins, Darth Vader, among others.
But we’re going to be looking at the iconic gargoyle, or technically grotesque, and what
would happen if they came to life.
We’re talking the kind of beast like creatures that resemble a lion with wings of a dragon,
and the face of a bat.
You know, the classic gargoyle.
Well for starters, that’d be scary.
It’d be almost as if the pterodactyl was roaming our skies, only difference being these
things have wings on their back, which aren’t attached to their front arms or hands, and
their faces aren’t as long.
If anything, I think these things are way scarier.
Just imagine a flying lion, with the wings of a bat.
How would you even combat that?
I’ll give you a pro tip, you wouldn’t.
Now like most evil things, it seems these things come alive at night.
At least in the gargoyle tv show they did.
I mean we’re talking about statues right?
So let’s go with the notion that the sunlight, or day time at the very least, turns these
things into stone.
It’s a notion that is prevalent in a lot of mythology and fiction, and for the sake
of this video we’re going to go with it.
So during the day, we’d be okay.
Everything would be pretty normal, not much would change there.
But at night, things would certainly change.
We’d have flying dragon like creatures with a mix of lion and possibly monkey or even
bat in them as well.
They would run on evil, be insanely dangerous and of course, they’d be blood thirsty.
This would change the way we live.
The way we do literally anything and everything at night time.
Going out for some eggs late at night could be a very dangerous task if these beasts were
flying in our skies.
We’d pretty much all have to stay inside after dark.
In the winter time especially, this would be especially problematic, at least in Toronto,
when it gets dark by 6pm.
We’d have shorter work days.
It would also be dangerous to go outside on cloudy, or rainy days when the sun isn’t
shining.
We’d pretty much have these demon like creatures roaming our skies, without any way to stop
them, unless they turn to stone.
When they did reach their stone form, we’d have to remove them from the top of churches,
cathedrals, really anywhere they are placed, and smash them into pieces.
But would that really destroy them ? Who knows, because this is an entirely fictional video.
If anything, I’d say we’d have to break the stone down to such small pieces it turns
into dust.
Then we burn that dust.
We’d need to completely destroy any traces of their being, out of fear that they may
possibly come back.
I mean we’re talking about evil, flying, dragon like, lion faced, demon monsters that
are fuelled on sin in a sense.
What would be the best way to destroy them?
We could go with the religion route, but would that mean those who don’t practice specific
religions wouldn’t be affected by the Gargoyles?
And how would the gargoyles know?
Possibly because they’re demons, or evil spirits.
But what would that mean for someone who recently converted to or from christianity for example?
Of course, these are all possible questions we can answer, but for the sake of this video
we’re going in a much more general direction.
The gargoyles would just attack anyone and everyone, because they’re evil spirited
monsters.
Simple as that.
Although at first we’d have to learn the hard way, with many people fleeing for their
lives, and these things attacking the people who are out at night, eventually we’d find
a way to control it.
The army could get involved but who knows if a gun shot would do anything against these
creatures.
A possible alternative solution would to have spotlights on the gargoyles set up in the
day time.
This way when the sun goes away, there would still be a consistent light on the stone statue
waiting to break out into its true form.
I think ultimately, we’d need to just destroy any and every trace of gargoyles on earth.
We’d need to make it a law world wide that the creation of these stone statues are also
prohibited.
Some extremely religious people may see this as problematic, because it’d be considered
vandalizing religious property.
But if it’s for the greater good and safety of the public, I’d like to think they would
make an exception.
If they didn’t, however, this could cause a divide between people more so then we already
have.
People may destroy various places of worship, and it’d be interesting to see how they
would be punished.
Especially in places where there’s tons of religions history, like Rome, for example.
Now ultimately, this video is totally hypothetical, because most Gargoyles are now just made for
show.
They don’t seem to hold as much precedence as they used to.
But history is still history.
That being said, when it comes to the general public, I feel it would be necessary to destroy
these things.
We’d just have to hope turning them into dust and burning them would ultimately kill
the evil spirit that is the gargoyle.
Good news is, we’ll never have to find out.
As previously mentioned, this is a hypothetical video.
It’s all for fun.
So fret not.
And let me make it very, very clear.
Do not destroy or vandalize any places of worship.
Because that’d be a pretty disgusting thing to do.
And if you do, you’ll get what’s coming to you.
Whatever they may be.
But on a lighter note, let’s reply to some comments from the video Should You Really
Cover Up Your Webcams?
1K Golden Apples said Technically there may be someone watching this video now, That have
seen you while you were making
this video.
Sike said some person: buys the iphone 11 pro that has 3 cameras
the same person: covers all cameras
Philipps YT said well, most people cover their webcams.
but, why don't they cover
their microphones?