1.   The three climbing down the ladder broke the spell that transfixed them, petrified them into plaster statues.

2.   On Tuesday, he said, Ezerski attacked him with a plaster statue and tried to choke him.

3.   There are huge plaster statues of dancing deities, giant bullocks and elephants.

4.   Police did not identify the San Francisco man, who told FBI agents he awoke when Ezerski began striking him in the head with a plaster statue.

5.   Plaster statues of him sold outside the sanctuary show a man in rags, with dogs licking the wounds on his legs.

6.   A plaster statue of the two served as their surrogate at the ceremony.

7.   Inside the church, the mob overturned the pews, broke plaster statues and smashed up the confessional boxes.

8.   No one seems to know who left the plaster statue at the Santuario de Chimayo.