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Basilisk

Beings · Myth & story

A king-serpent of later natural-history and lore whose glance or breath kills. Not the ordinary serpent node and not an English cockatrice.

  • Basilisk is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History lists basilisk remains among animal remedies: ash used against other venoms. A Roman encyclopedic drug-use of the king-serpent, not a cult appears_in and not an English cockatrice.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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