Talk:Basilisk/@comment-26054178-20160311163441/@comment-27950421-20160312182121


 * sighs* Contrary to Harry Potter, Basilisks do not work the same way Medusa does. A basilisks power is to kill at a glance, not turn it to stone not kill anything that looks it in the eye, but to kill you just by looking at you. It looks at you and you die, period. They are also so poisonous that they kill the plants and animals around with nothing but their presence (an area that is devoid of plant life is usually a sign of a basilisk den being near by) and can cause stone to crumble with nothing but a touch. Granted the MGE version is non fatal she causes all of the victime muscles to relax not tense up, they don't petrify, they collapse. Like a corpse. Also, I'm not familiar with any myth saying that Basilisks have any method of hurting you with sound. Most myths state that they can be killed by th crowing of a rooster and the MGE basilisk has a weakness to men whispering in her ear so the earmuffs would be more usful to her than to you. And finally, mirrors... actually do work. Since a basilisk kills by looking at something and when it looks in a mirror it ends up looking at itself mirrors and other reflective surfaces are essentially a method to force a basilisk to commit suicide.