Legendary Basilisk With Deadly Petrifying Stare – King Of The Serpents

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Who or what was this mysterious creature that could kill just by looking at you?
It is described by ancient writers and philosophers who often wondered about its appearance and function.
Pliny described the Basilisk as a snake with white spots or stripes with fiery breath and a death-dealing cry, and the creature could drive people mad with its poison.  It was believed that the Basilisk had one thing in common with Medusa,  namely, the ability to strike onlookers dead by its glance alone.

Rijeka Basilisk statue at the Trsat castle court. Credit: Adobe Stock –Dario Bajurin

“It destroys all shrubs, not only by its contact, but those even that it has breathed upon; it burns up all the grass too, and breaks the stones…”

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