Re-Release: The Basilisk

Myths in Movies

**RE-RELEASE**
Due to some work commitments, we will not be publishing a new episode this week. So check out a classic episode all about Harry Potter and his foe- the basilisk.
Have you heard of the basilisk? It’s one of Harry Potter’s legendary foes. We’re going back in time and exploring all of the folklore surrounding it. We’ll hang in the 16th century and learn how a basilisk is created. We even learn about a Swiss town that was so worried they had a rooster who produced a basilisk, they put the rooster on trial. Don’t worry, it’s totally above board- he had his own lawyer.

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Sources

https://www.neatorama.com/story/In-1474-A-Swiss-Rooster-was-Put-on-Trial-for-Laying-an-Egg/

R. McN. Alexander. (1963). The Evolution of the Basilisk. Greece & Rome, 10(2), 170–181. http://www.jstor.org/stable/642817

Monstrum, pbs

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/on-the-trail-of-the-warsaw-basilisk-5691840/

Longwell, S. E. (1917). Myth and Error in the Rise of Natural History. The Scientific Monthly, 4(4), 355–364. http://www.jstor.org/stable/22473

Mysteries at the museum

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