But many of the Medusa's neighbors, like Darth Vader, aren't really gargoyles… "A gargoyle officially must spew water or be able to do so," said Janetta Rebold Benton, a professor of art history ...

Were gargoyles menacing reminders of evil’s constant presence ... But for John Connolly Jr., an art historian and librarian at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the obsession with gargoyles ...

gargoyles were also intended to symbolise 'guardianship' of the building and to ward off evil spirits. Their open mouths were symbolic of them devouring giants." But by the early 18th century ...