[HPforGrownups] Re: That was a basilisk?

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 57960

On Thu, 15 May 2003, melclaros wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pegruppel" <pegruppel at y...> 
> wrote:
> , hatched from an egg incubated under a toad.
> 
> 
> Well actually *that* is a cocatrice. A very close relative of the 
> basilisk, but not a basilisk as such.

According to Bullfinch's Mythology, the cockatrice and basilisk are the 
same creature.

http://www.bulfinch.org/fables/bull36.html

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"