The lion

The wild animal can be distinguished by its clawed toes, its tail folded over its back and finished with a streaked lock in the same way as the curly upper locks of its back coat or its forehead mane. Its circular face is topped by two rounded ears and it sticks out its tongue slightly. Above, its muzzle stretches from its whisker pads, highlighted by fang-like whiskers, to the arch of its large, bulging, hemmed eyes. The beast is nevertheless subdued by the man facing it, brandishing a weapon against his temple and fighting the paganism and death that the beast represents. This same lion evokes other local features: the bulging eyes, the roundness of the face and the fang-like moustaches are reminiscent of the faces of the holy abbot of Florennes in Maredsous and the protruding heads of the basins in Beauvechain.