DOG-DEVIL FIGHT.
A light between a dog and a devil, ending in the rout of the evil one, is depicted in the carving of Exeter Cathedral. The fact is revealed by a writer in the annual report of the Friends of the Cathedral. "The masons who carved the bosses, etc., in our old cathedrals," he says, '•usually put all the ugly and evil things on the* cold and shady north side, but here, a devil is represented in a boss on the south side above the clerestory arch near the eedilia, a green, scaly, cropeared, snarling creature with a double forked tongue, who has flown in at the window. But Roger's lop-eared dog at the base of the corbel opposite the Bishop's throne has caught sight of him and moved him to the triforinm gallery opposite. The two heads can be seen supporting the arcade arches there. Next he drives him to the north choir aisle, and above the tomb of Bishop Carey the dog and the evil beast are watching one another from opposite sides of the shaft supporting the vaulting. But the light is not ended till, just outside, we see the finish in the picture. Roger's dog has cleared the devil out.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 204, 29 August 1935, Page 17
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