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cockatrices
«They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.»
Author: Bible
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«Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.»
«For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.»
«And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.»
«BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved. Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave. Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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