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SKULLS 20 02 2006
An Extract taken from "A Book of Folklore", Sabine Baring-Gould, 1913 In medieval churches, castles, and mansions where there is a parapet rising from the wall and obscuring a portion of the roof, this parapet is supported at intervals by corbels, that usually represent heads of either men or beasts, very frequently grotesque. These corbels are not of any great structural importance, though the...