Basilisk hatched from cock's egg. Usually, a seven-year-old cock. Egg must lie in manure. (Cf. B11.1.1.)

Motif

Basilisk hatched from cock's egg. Usually, a seven-year-old cock. Egg must lie in manure. (Cf. B11.1.1.)

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Mythical beasts and hybrids. · view the constellation · filed as B12.1

Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general *Polívka Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 46ff.
general *Fb. "basilisk" I 53a, IV 29a
general De Vries Het Sprookje 19–97
general Taylor PMLA XXXVI 35ff.
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "Basilisk".

Within the index

Filed under Basilisk. A mythical lizard or serpent whose hissing drives away all other serpents.

Filed beside it

Basilisk's fatal glance. Renders powerless or kills Basilisk killed by seeing own image

Travels with

Dragon from cock's egg. (Cf. B12.1.)

wander