The Basilisk shed its skin at intervals, like all other snakes, when it grew.
For example, Stunning Spells would have no effect on the deadly beast.
īasilisk skin was armoured like that of a dragon's, which deflected spells cast upon it. These eyes had the power to instantly kill anyone who looked into them. They also possessed rows of incredibly sharp poisonous fangs and large yellow eyes. The Basilisk could grow up to fifty feet in length, were a dark green or a colour with a lighter green underbelly. The creature that had shed it must have been twenty feet long at least." - Description of the snake skin īasilisk skin shed in the Chamber of Secrets " The light slid over a gigantic snake skin, of a vivid, poisonous green, lying curled and empty across the tunnel floor. Tom Riddle was the only one who could command Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk, while Harry Potter had no control over her. This obedience depended on the relationship between the Basilisk and the Parselmouth. However, since the Basilisk was still a serpent, a Parselmouth might communicate with it and potentially place the creature under their influence. The Basilisk had a classification as an XXXXX creature, meaning it was a known wizard-killer that couldn't be domesticated due to its immense powers. Spiders refused to speak of the Basilisk, could intuitively sense their presence, and would flee whenever they sensed them. Looking a Basilisk directly in the eye caused instant death, but an indirect look would merely render the victim Petrified. The practice could be hidden when the Department for Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures came to check by simply removing the egg from the toad. īasilisk breeding was banned in Medieval times, a regulation that has not changed. Herpo accomplished this by hatching a chicken egg beneath a toad which resulted in the creature known as a Basilisk. Herpo the Foul was the first to breed a Basilisk. It was a magical beast that was usually bred by Dark Wizards. The Basilisk was a giant serpent, also known as the King of Serpents. Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it." - Most Macabre Monstrosities
Its methods of killing are most wondrous, for aside from its deadly and venomous fangs, the Basilisk has a murderous stare, and all who are fixed with the beam of its eye shall suffer instant death. This snake, which may reach gigantic size, and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken's egg, hatched beneath a toad. " Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam our land, there is none more curious or more deadly than the Basilisk, known also as the King of Serpents.
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