Basilisk
c. 77 CE – 1700 CEattested
Roman North Africa, then Europe
- European Folklore
- Greek
In Pliny a small snake that kills with its glance and its breath. Medieval Europe grew it into a rooster-serpent hatched from an egg laid by a cockerel.
Known for
- kills by looking
- killed by its own reflection
- the weasel is immune
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.