Questions tagged [basilisk]

What is the difference between a cockatrice and a basilisk? I have heard both described as a chicken's egg hatched under a toad, and that both are snake-like animals, and that both will turn you to stone if you look at them. Are they the same…

There are a lot of mythological references, which states that the crow of a rooster is fatal to a Basilisk. From CHAPTER XXXVI of the Bulfinch's mythology, MODERN MONSTERS- THE PHOENIX- BASILISK- UNICORN-SALAMANDER. There is an old saying that…

In the myth of the Basilisk, the monster was born from the egg layed by a rooster. And there were medieval processes, where a rooster was condemned to the death for laying an egg. But how it was believed that rooster layed the egg? Was it the result…