Basilisk. A mythical lizard or serpent whose hissing drives away all other serpents.
Animals. · Mythical animals. · Mythical beasts and hybrids. · view the constellation · filed as B12
“The loon then flew with him toward its nest, and finally brought him to it, on a large cliff. After they had reached this, it began to fly again, and took him to a pond.??? The loon then dived with him, in order to make him recover his eyesight. It would dive and ask him whether he was smothering; when he answered that he was, it took him above the surface to regain his breath. Thus they dived, until the blind boy could see again.”
— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 74 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan
Attested across traditions
- North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 74 receipt