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The second chapter, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse, discusses the first time the Professor had heard the word " Cthulhu " and seen a similar image.

At the 1908 meeting of the American Archaeological Society in St. Louis, Missouri, a New Orleans police official named John Raymond Legrasse asked the assembled antiquarians to identify a statuette composed of an unidentifiable greenish-black stone, that " had been captured some months before in the wooded swamps south of New Orleans during a raid on a supposed voodoo meeting.

" The idol resembles the Wilcox sculpture, and represented a "... thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters ".