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Encyclopedia Britannica



COCKATRICE

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 623 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COCKATRICE , a fabulous
monster
 , the existence of which was firmly believed in throughout ancient and medieval times,descriptions and figures of it appearing in the natural history works of such writers as Pliny and Aldrovandus, those of the latter published so
late
  as the beginning of the 17th
century
 . Produced from a cock's egg hatched by a serpent, it was believed to possess the most deadly
powers
 , plants withering at its
touch
 , and men and animals dying poisoned by its look. It stood in
awe, however, of the cock, the
sound
  of whose crowing killed it, and consequently travelers were wont to take this bird with them in travelling over regions supposed to abound in cockatrices. The weasel alone among mammals was unaffected by the glance of its evil eye, and attacked it at all times successfully; for when wounded by the
monster
 's teeth it found a ready remedy in ruethe only plant which the cockatrice could not wither. This myth reminds one of the real contests between the weasel-like mungoos of India and the deadly cobra, in which the latter is generally killed. The
term
  " cockatrice " is employed on four occasions in the
English
 
translation
  of the Bible, in all o1 which it denotes nothing more than an exceedingly venomous reptile; it seems also to be synonymous with " basilisk," the mythical king of serpents.


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