Few creatures have struck more terror into more hearts for longer than the basilisk: a crested snake, hatched from a cock’s egg, that was widely believed to wither landscapes with its breath and kill with a glare. The example to the right comes from a German bestiary, but the earliest description that we have was [...]
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The strange tale of the Warsaw basilisk
Posted: 5 April 2010 in Africa, Austria-Hungary, Britain, C13th, C15th, C16th, C17th, C18th, C9th, Denmark, Italy, Mysteries, Netherlands, Poland, Rumours and panics, Switzerland1
