>>1205559The most interesting is how it ends.
The young Saint Martha of Bethany, coming to evangelize Provence, decided to brave the beast. With all the compassion that her faith procured her, she obtained the submission of the creature, who accepted the leash. So she tied down this symbol of paganism.
It is said that the Tarasque was killed by the inhabitants of the village afterwards because it has killed so much of their own.
Another version says that sixteen young men decided to defy the beast, and only eight survived, who then founded the city of Tarascon and Beaucaire.
It is a common myth, a saint who chase/kill/subjugate a pagan beast, in the first centuries of christianity. We call it a sauroctone in french. It seems that this word doesn't exist outside of greek and french. It means "lizard killer"
