Basilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents | Monstrum

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the basilisk isnt fictional.

A cockatrice/basilisk is in the Scriptures. See Proverbs 23:32.

The cockatrice looks like a the dragon's ratchet lil cousin 🤔 not far off considering serpents and dragons relation

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I hate it when basilisk and cockatrice are supposedly the same one is a chicken monster the other one is a giant snake

When I hear large snake and weasel, I think Cobra and Mongoose. I'm sure they got mixed in there somewhere

The term cockatrice l is largely unknown in German-language literature and the monster described here is only referred to as a basilisk. For this reason, I found both depictions of the creature in Harry Potter as a giant and in D&D's Monster Manual as a six legged lizard confusing, if not outright wrong, because the way I imagine a basilisk is what you would call a cockatrice, since that is the most common depiction of a basilisk that I have seen in illustrations from the late Middle Ages. My dislike for these other interpretations of the basilisk goes so far that when I used a basilisk in a D&D game I discribed it to my players as a cockatrice instead of using the description in the Monster Manual.

Also in the film version of Chamber of Secrets the Basilisk isn’t a snake but rather a legless lizard. Three key features give that away. One its lower jaw is one solid piece two it has external ears and three it has moving eye lids snakes have a single scale covering their eye their lower jaws aren’t connected and they don’t have external ears.

Praise the LORD for creating chickens.

Boy the stupid theories they had back then it's funny because snakes don't have ears so a rooster's Crow would have literally no effect on one

The saints/angels/members of holy family is a snake that represents the snake in the garden of Eden. They are trampling Satan, not a basilisk. Satan is refered to in the bible as a dragon and/or snake throughout the bible.

I disagree, a basilisk is more of a giant lizard, a cockatrice is more of a giant rooster with a snake head/tail.

It is a king cobra, having diamond shape on head, spitting venom, all others snakes fear it. Hypnotizing eyes.

What's very sad is that snakes being mythologized as being evil led to them being slaughtered by the billions over thousands of years. Snakes are still slaughtered because religion has dubbed them evil.

Religion has done no end of harm to nature and man alike.

Growing up I had heard of the cockatrice, and until Harry Potter the only basilisks I had heard of were six legged reptiles.

The Roman story's sound like Xenomorph from the Alien movies...

Calling it the KING of Serpents, then positing that they may have been misidentified as Grass Snakes, and then learning that Grass Snakes are Yellow...

Made me connect some dots that I'm not sure I wanna connect... to dread Carcossa.

To capture a cockatrice, you need a mirror! If it sees its reflection, it won't turn itself to stone, but it will be ashamed of its appearance!🐓🐍🪞🪨😬

Also, in Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, the Phoenix's immortality makes it immune to the Basilisk snake, and the bird blinds the snake, for good measure! And in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Basilisk venom, as well as Fiendfyre, was key to destroy the 7 Horcruxes of Voldemort! 🐍🐦🔥🗡️🧙⚡☠️

You reviewed the Hogwarts' beast, what about ilvermorny's Uktena serpent?

The saint book physical where can I get it from please share the link

I always thought basilisk are the children of Apep, the Egyptian snake god.

I hate how you just went up and called Harry Potter's Basilisk's large size to be just an artistic license when it's literally explained in the text why. Like JK Rowling researched it well (considering you showed us background info about the Basilisk that was incorporated well into Harry Potter) and gave it her own creative spin.

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I have usually seen basilisks portrayed as large four-legged reptiles capable of turning its victims to stone with its gaze. I was really surprised to see it as a snake.

You missed the part about how cobras are defeated by the mongoose.

Phoenixes are immune to the basilisks Deadly stare

ba·sil·i·ca
/bəˈsiləkə/
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Origin

mid 16th century: from Latin, literally ‘royal palace’, from Greek basilikē, feminine of basilikos ‘royal’, from basileus ‘king’.

Totally explains who runs the Catholic church - SATAN himself

Isn't it kind of funny how the Basalisk has the same plot progression as the Tyrannosaurus rex? A king of reptiles originally thought to be a reptile themselves, with a crown made of bone. And with the studies on the Tyrannosaurus showing that it made a sound that you could feel and was bone chillingly terrifying. Then people scientist realized that it wasn't a reptile at all, but more of a bird.

So Rhett and Link have been using a basilisk this whole time lmao

Please make a video of giant snake.

What? No mention of the mongoose and the cobra!? 🐃💩

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Super randomly watching this after my hens laid Rooster eggs today for the first time time to grow myself a monster

NOW I BOW BEFOR KING OF SNAKS FORGET MY LAST COMINT

I'M NOT AFRAID OF SNAKS

I'm so happy someone finally answered this for me weirdly enough I've always thought about this

I am not even joking when I say this but I found the monster once referred to as a "Basilicock" in 'The Anatomy of Abuses' by Phillip Stubbs from 1583.

Mighty good word.

Religious is pure nonsense.

Hey i might be wrong but isn’t the basilisk of origin in Polish folklore? I remember reading stories about Bazyliszek (basilisk)

Everyone is gangsta until Leviathan comes in

OM Ahirbhudnya Namaha! 🙏

The Cockatrice is 100 percent an Image of a Oviraptor.

"permeated into"? Come on. You have a PhD. Do better with your English.

Really well done. Truly.

“Patriarchy”? Really? What an idiot. 😂