I find this old architectural decorations rather beautiful and I suppose it was designed as a form of protection from the evil forces too? ;)
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Yes, that's right, but the interesting thing about people is that they often put ominous images above their doors, which also serve to protect the house. Weird logic. Perhaps because no one really knows for sure which creatures are actually good and which are bad, and how they can be properly used by humans (if they can be used at all)...
Some are definitely shape-shifters, lol.
That's just thinking proactively, dealing with evil in advance.
Elders knew better, we should listen to them!
I'm sure all these things are written down somewhere. But we humans like to deceive ourselves, to change the essence of things on purpose, because it is more convenient for us or serves us some purposes. Also, some things I think are deliberately made and presented to us in this confusing way - beautiful and kind beings whose nature is disputed, or beings to whom an evil essence is attributed, but this is perhaps simply wrong, again because the warped human mind…