{Knowledge is power, as they say.

St. Martha is the tamer of the Tarasque, a great dragon with legs like a bear, an ox-like body covered like a turtle's shell, a lion's face, and a tail with a scorpion's sting at the end. It was impervious to the efforts of man, but she calmed it with prayers and hymns, and it became docile and offered no resistance to the townspeople, who killed it without knowing of its new gentle nature. In repentance, the villagers converted to Christianity and renamed their town "Tarascon" in its honor.}