Talk:Basilisk/@comment-27069434-20160309195731

Yes, God, yes! Finally, a basilisk! Always loved the beast.

Their name is a diminutive of the greek "basileus", which roughly equates to "king" or "ruler". Though in the classics the basilicks have a crest akin to the cockerel's upon their heads which looks somewhat like a crown, thus the name of the serpent king. It is said their breath is venomous, they leave a trail of poison wherever they crawl and any watersource they drink from becomes foul with their poison.

And now for something (not) completely different: the russian wiki's gonna be hard-pressed to find an adequate name for the cockatrice now that we've got a full basilisk form Kenkou, because all sources I've checked give the cockatrice a russian translation of "basilisk".Gonna look into the matter on a higher level. Stand by for updates, fellas.