Basilisk killed by seeing own image.
Animals. · Mythical animals. · Mythical beasts and hybrids. · view the constellation · filed as B12.3
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references
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 *Fb "basilisk" I 53a, "spejl" III 48a
- general Ward Catalogue of Romances III 194
- general Oesterley Gesta Romanorum No. 139
- general Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 935.
Within the index
Filed under Basilisk. A mythical lizard or serpent whose hissing drives away all other serpents.
Filed beside it