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Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Aug 1st, '19, 11:26
by memoriam
Polish basilisk is a completely different basilisk, it's not a snake. I think it's part rooster, part frog and with snake tail. Or something like that.
But most of the world only knows about the snake one
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Aug 1st, '19, 12:22
by Nankuii
Oh that's interesting :o Like a different version of one myth for every culture, huh
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Aug 1st, '19, 12:52
by memoriam
It's featured in one of our city's legends, I can't remember which one, Krakow maybe? I can't remember anymore, that's sad xD
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Aug 1st, '19, 17:04
by jacobgrey
I knew the basilisk as what you're describing first, Mem. I think we can blame Harry Potter for the other one XD
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Aug 2nd, '19, 10:54
by Nankuii
Yeah when I searched it up, HP was the first one that came up :o
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Aug 2nd, '19, 21:19
by Akili Li
wait, where do snakes come into it? I thought a basilisk was a bit like a cockatrice.... a rooster lays an egg, a toad hatches it under a full moon, looks like a weird dragonish chicken?
Mortal enemies with weasels?
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Aug 3rd, '19, 08:02
by Nankuii
Dunno, but when I searched it up, it said serpent :o But then again, different versions of the same myth
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Aug 3rd, '19, 08:19
by Ms_Zuralli
There's one historian that theorizes that some of the accounts are because of the king cobra. Some myths make it seem absolutely terrifying as well, like being able to kill everything around it, and even if you was to use a weapon against it is not a smart thing to do as the blood is so poisonous you would die from holding the weapon that killed it. I do kind of like the legend that describes it as no more than "twelve finger long". That makes it sound cute.
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Aug 4th, '19, 17:41
by memoriam
Okay, I'm officially blaming J.K. Rowling for the serpent thing XD
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Aug 4th, '19, 19:01
by light_sucks
On Witcher the basilisks look kind of like a lizard bird dragon. They're really strange looking. lol.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/wit ... 0408164921
Here's a cockatrice on there:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HdkQcMWH9SM/maxresdefault.jpg
But I think most people now a days think this kind of basilisk:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/har ... 1129174406
