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Bookmark or Share- Basilisk (Cockatrice) - Mythical Beast | Mythology.netA Basilisk (or cockatrice) is a chimeric monster, born from a toad or serpent ’s egg incubated under a cockerel. The terrible offspring that hatches from this egg is half-bird, half-snake, and all evil. It is one of the deadliest creatures to menace the mythological world, and it is extremely hostile towards mankind.
- Basilisk | Mythic Serpent - Greek MythologyAccording to Pliny, the basilisk is a small snake, no more than thirty centimeters long, native to northern Africa. The basilisk that Pliny describes walks without curves (an important characteristic).
- Basilisk | Mythical, Pet & Reptile | BritannicaBasilisk, (genus Basiliscus), any of four species of forest lizards of tropical North and South America belonging to the family Iguanidae. The name is applied because of a resemblance to the legendary monster called basilisk (see cockatrice).
- Basilisk - WikipediaIn European bestiaries and legends, a basilisk ( / ˈbæsɪlɪsk / or / ˈbæzɪlɪsk / [1]) is a legendary reptile reputed to be a serpent king, who causes death to those who look into its eyes.
- The Extremely Real Science behind the Basilisk’s Lethal GazeThe basilisk, which slays its victims with a single glance, seems as fantastical as the scorpion-tailed manticore or the Barnacle Tree, which sprouts goslings like fruit. But there was a perfectly reasonable scientific explanation for the basilisk’s lethal look: the extramission theory of vision.
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