A '''''basilisk''''', also known as the King of Serpents, is a bright green snake. It can grow to enormous size. It is able to kill by simply looking at something.
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A '''''basilisk''''', also known as the King of Serpents, is a huge, bright green snake. A basilisk hatches from a chicken egg placed under a toad. If someone looks directly into a basilisk's eyes, then he or she will die instantly as [[../../Characters/Moaning_Myrtle|Moaning Myrtle]] did, as mentioned in [[../../Books/Chamber_of_Secrets|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]. If someone looks indirectly (in a reflection, or through a ghost or camera), he or she will become Petrified. Basilisks also have very poisonous fangs. A rooster's crow is fatal to them. Spiders are terrified of basilisks and run away from them. Basilisks live for hundreds of years. The first known one was hatched by the dark wizard Herpo the Foul. They are impossible to control, except by Parselmouths.
