A basilisk traditionally has a thing where you look directly in its eyes you die and the only thing able to penetrate its scales is a weasels claws and the cry of a rooster kills it however the thing in the show they call a basilisk is actually a cockatrice it has a breath that petrified things and poison claws the difference is a cockatrice has both a snake and chicken body and a basilisk is just a big snake
I think a cockatrice appears later in the series and it looks just like a bigger meaner version of the basilisk, but does have the ability to turn people to stone. Apparently in this universe they are close relatives.
A basilisk traditionally has a thing where you look directly in its eyes you die and the only thing able to penetrate its scales is a weasels claws and the cry of a rooster kills it however the thing in the show they call a basilisk is actually a cockatrice it has a breath that petrified things and poison claws the difference is a cockatrice has both a snake and chicken body and a basilisk is just a big snake
Ahh, you are so right! That's what I was thinking of
I think a cockatrice appears later in the series and it looks just like a bigger meaner version of the basilisk, but does have the ability to turn people to stone. Apparently in this universe they are close relatives.