Talk:Cockatrice/@comment-24946190-20140527161656/@comment-25035274-20140901161109

"Hatched", when referring to a parent 'hatching' an egg, usually refers to incubation. I.E. a serpent coils around a chicken's egg to hatch it.

Realisitcally it wouldn't work so well, as snakes are endothermic. But people didn't know that in the middle ages.