The earliest depiction of Satan in a Christian church shows a being that is strikingly similiar to a lobster. Not having a clear idea of what the Lord of Hell might look like, the artist apparently employed something that he personally found scary. Over time, the image gradually morphed into the currently familiar image of a red, horned man. There are images of Satan with gigantic claws that date as late as the 15th century A.D., and one statue of him from a 13th century Byzantine fresco that shows him with a big, flappy lobster tail.