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Published: 2008-08-02 05:00:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 2147; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 74
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Medium: Ink and colored pens on paperYet another mythical monster! The basilisk, also known as the cockatrice, is said to have hatched from a rooster's egg. I got the idea to depict the monster as a cross between a chicken and a dragon.
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With no legs of any sorts, this rendering of a basilisk sure has a touch of a wyvern.Ā
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Depictions of basilisks and/or cockatrices tend to vary!
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In acuallity, basilisks are man sized raptor like creatures that cannot turn things to stone. The first encounter with a basilisk goes like this: a man in mideival times was being chase by a red basilisk, and then fell into a pool of strange grey molasses, and the basil pulled him out. The gunk then immediately hardened like cement, freezing the human in place forever as the basil inspected the statue, a passerby saw it and immediately Thot tha basilisk had turned the man to stone with its glare
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Well, there's an explanation for everything, I guess.
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Don't forget that the only way to defend yourself or kill that creature is only one simple, but amazing tool: A MIRROR. ;DĀ
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I thought a basilisk and a cockatrice were similar but in fact different creatures. A basilisk is more of a lizard that turns people to stone where a cockatrice is the flying snake-chicken that turns people to stone. Like a Gorgon which is the snake haired person that turns people to stone. All three are similar in magical powers but different creatures.
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That would justify there being two different names!
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Of all the times I've seen them, I think this version of him makes the most seance.
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Thanks for the comment.
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Pretty spiffy. I love your weird creatures.
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Thanks. I love drawing weird creatures!
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A dragon with a chiken head! Really cool 
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You'er welcome
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Thanks for 
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You're welcome!
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One of my favourite mythical creatures, said to have hatched from a chicken egg fertilized by a toad, isn't it?
I really like how you portrayed it (him?). ^^
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Thanks. I think I heard the toad part somewhere.
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Glad you like this!
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Glad you do, Anebrd!
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It looks like a bit like the character from the cornflakes box.
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Good point, it does!
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Thanks so much!
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YAY!!!
Did you ever see my character Joey the Basilisk?
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I think I might have. And thanks for the
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No problem. I'm wondering if you have any knowledge of what Unicorns originally were supposed to look like before they became horned horses?
I read it in a single book, and I can't find that book now... Originally they actually looked kind of like a hybred between a hippo, a goat, and a giraffe or something if I remember correctly.
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This is the first I'd heard of that! I do know that unicorns are supposed to based on early sightings of rhinos. The Persian unicorn, the Karkadann, looks something like a rhino, so that could give the theory some credence.
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I wanted to create a story where Ms. Leleb meets an actual unicorn that looks like that, and she's kind of surprised that it's not what she thinks it is.
I have a lot of ideas to have old mythological creatures in my Snooze and Mat comics(mostly cause that universe has a lot of ties to mythology.)
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Sounds great to me!
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