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BASILISK (the /3aathtaios of the Greeks, and Tsepha (cockatrice)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 479 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BASILISK (the /3aathtaios of the Greeks, and Tsepha (cockatrice) of the Hebrews), a name given by the ancients to a horrid
monster
  of their own
imagination
 , to which they attributed the most
malignant
  powers and an equally fiendish
appearance
 . The
term
  is now applied, owing to a certain fanciful resemblance, to a genus of lizards belongingto the familylguanidae,the species of which are characterized by the presence,in the males, of an erectile crest on the head, and a still higher, likewise erectile crestbeset with scaleson the back, and another on the
long
  tail. Basiliscus americanus reaches the length of one yard; its colour is green and brown, with dark crossbars, while the crest is reddish. This beautiful, strictly herbivorous creature is rather common amidst the luxuriant vegetation on the banks of rivers and streams of the Atlantic hot lands of
Mexico
  and Guatemala. The lizards lie upon the branches of trees overhanging the water, into which they plunge at the slightest alarm. Then they propel themselves by rapid strokes of the hind limbs, beating the water in a semi-erect position and letting the
long
 
rudder
 -like tail drag behind. They are universally known as pasa-rips, i.e. ferrymen.


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