BASILISK
[/ˈbæzəlɪsk/]
Definition
The cockatrice.
A sort of serpent hatched from the egg of a cock.
The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal.
Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved.
Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave.
Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying.
A sort of serpent hatched from the egg of a cock.
The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal.
Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved.
Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave.
Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying.
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