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The basilisk is a european monster, said to hatch from an egg laid by a rooster and incubated by a lizard....Another animal, called a Cocatrice, is seemingly almost interchangeable with the Basilisk, though the Cocatrice is hatched from an egg laid by a lizard and hatched by a rooster... Both can turn men to stone with a look, curdle milk and whatnot. Supposedly the only creature able to stand up to them is the Weasel, because of it's smell!
Sometimes a Basilisk is depicted as more lizard-like, or without wings, but often the basilisk and cocatrice are identical and the words are used interchangeably. Thought to be more of an alchemical creature- meaning it wasn't necessarily believed to be REAL but used as a metaphor for some chemical/magical transformation.
Not to be confused with the real live Basilisk lizard which has a frilled collar flap and took it's name after the mythical beastie, I believe..
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This is a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good Basilisk drawing.
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It's fine, your drawing is very amazing considering that I was on a basilisk picture hunt and it was one of the only ones I really liked.
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Yeah, it's a very detailed and awesome drawing. I like how you sort of put the basilisk in a frame, and FINALLY someone has come along that knows what the real basilisk looks like and hasn't been so strongly influenced by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
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Never read hp, but I don't think that new interpretations are all bad, necessarily... I just like to draw my inspiration from some historical points. The book will be out in December, with a little more info on each and more drawings, to be sure.
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What, what, what, what, what, what, what. You mean to tell me that you have not read a single sentence in the vast vineyard of sentences in the Harry Potter Series?
PLEASE SHOW A JOYOUS FACE IN REPLY TO CONFIRM SPOILER-NEED, FOR I HAVE BEEN ITCHING TO JUST SPIT OUT SO MANY FACTS THAT I KNOW.
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err.... I am FAMILIAR with the HP stuff, I just was never interested in reading them.. When they came out their target audience was really a much younger crowd. I like the idea of them, they certainly got a lot of kids reading, and interested in magic and mythology. So win for them! I just have a hard time wanting to invest my reading hours to a book that was meant for teens and tweens. I read a lot of nonfiction and history, or when I get around to fun stuff I will read modern fantasy, like Patricia Briggs or Charlaine Harris (and no, I don't watch the TV versions).
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Huh, true that, true that. In the last book you actually start to realize that the lesson of the book is love overpowers all, and even Jo said that herself. And Jo also said that if you read the book again you'll start noticing religious stuff, and she said that she believes in a Higher Power, but rarely will call it "God."
Anyway, have you perhaps read LOTR or Sabriel
P.S. I haven't read Sabriel but I'm dying to.
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I've read the Lord of the Rings, though it was a long time ago. not the other tho. never heard of it.
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Sabriel is the first of a series by Garth Nix and is about a teenage girl-witch who is fighting her way past demons and necromancers (people who bring the dead back alive to serve them and tell them the future) so that she can get to her father, whom has been taken to the Underworld before his time and must be saved. There's all these really cool magical bells that cause death and necromancy, but I don't want to tell you too much in case you wish to read it.
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I'm sure it's great, it sounds very cool and involved.. but again with the teen target audience... I know I like and draw a lot of things that are currently tres popular with the teen age group, but I'm not even in my 20's anymore. I find it hard to empathize with teen heroes in stories.... Usually I find I want to smack them and say "grow UP, kid!".... Sometimes it's a mixed bag, this getting old thing.
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True, true, I guess your more fit for the prologue when there all twenty-nine and sending off their children. At the moment, since I'm reading Lord of the Rings already, it's a bit more of a highlight. I like mythology, legend, and imagination that takes off and goes into the realm of awesomness like the Balrog or the Cave Trolls, I mean who else in this world has ever thought of a troll with green scales and the strength of a hundred men. And Gandalf said that there were things worst then the Balrog in the Cave, so the eerie wonder really gets me (I'm a sucker for it.) Although I really like magic and other worlds like Narnia, Lord of the Rings again, and of course Harry Potter. Do you have a favorite book yourself? Sorry for kinda blabbing.
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Loved the Narnia series, but my dad read it to me when I was a child. I liked Terry Prachett for a while, but his puns get a bit overwhelming. Lord of the Rings was a great read... hated the second book, it was grueling. Really, my favorite author right now is Patricia Briggs, the Mercy novels, or the Alpha and Omega series.
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Oh, cool, I've read the first few chapters of Narnia series and like you and HP I get most of my information from the movies, but my cousin has told me about it. I've only just started the second book and I'm on the first chapter, but I love the book way more than the movies, and since I haven't seen the cinema in years I'm gonna finish each book, and when I do I'll watch the movies again.
P.S. Is Terry Prachet?
P.S.S. What are the other series you mentioned, the Mercy novels and the Alpha and Omega series?
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Is Terry Prachett what? a writer? yes. :-P look up the Discworld series... a bunch of his books have been made into movies by the BBC and a couple even into cartoons. He's very clever, but I am not always in the mood to slog through a lot of puns and sarcasm. When I AM in the mood to chuckle, he's pretty great!
Mercy and the Alpha and Omega novels are modern setting werewolves. well-written, I like her attention to detail.
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Oh, cool. I looked up Terry Prachett on wikipedia and his books are really cool. The whole elephant under the world thing comes from Hinduism and it said that he is obviously inspired by John Ronald Reul Tolkien (I like spelling his full name) and William Shakespeare. He also wrote a comedic novel called Carpet People that's obviously about the adventure of small people. There's an old edition and a revised edition, but anyway, he's cool. The Alpha and Omega series seems really cool as well and they have a movie passed on that sort of caste from disney studios.
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You don't see too many Cockatrice's in art today.
Nice work, my friend!
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This is incredibly detailed, and I admire every touch of finesse and style you've drawn in this. It reflects an older style, like what you'd find in the early century and is perfect to represent the mythological creatures from that era.
The feathers and scales have varied depth and I LOVE that. You've done an amazing job!
I believe the basilisk lizard is also called the "Jesus Lizard", because of its ability to run like a biped across the water with its light body weight -for roughly 5 meters, then it sinks and swims 
*Ahem* I digress. I love this artwork, excellent job!!
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