Digest Number 4138

[arrowsmithbt]

No: HPFGUIDX 88667

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Meghan Chalmers-McDonald 
<frost_indri at y...> wrote:
> Kneazy:
> > >> The  Basilisk is derived from a snake egg hatched beneath a toad,  so the
> >  snake aspect of my guess is covered already and if(!) I'm right,  JKR rarely
> > duplicates plot devices anyway.
>  
> 
>  Actually, according to FB it's a chicken egg on a dung heap, and according to the 
>  traditional myths its a rooster egg hatched by a toad on a dung heap 
>  underneath the dog star.  Which makes you wonder if maybe Sirus 
>  could had some luck with hatching a basilisk...  jk.
>  
>    However, the basilisk is called the King of Snakes, so, as Kneazy 
>  said, if the monster trend theory is correct, the snake has been 
>  covered.  
>
  
I have to admit that I quoted an erroneous source. Sad what age can do to
the mental faculties.

I'm more interested  in your mention of the entry in FBaWTFT.
Mine doesn't mention dung heaps at all, just a chicken egg beneath a toad,
as does CoS.

Have we found a variation between editions? If so, what else is changed?

Kneasy