Basilisks
Snakes
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- It also exists in snakes (basilisks) and chickens (cockatrices), and its effects can be mapped to a CCTV camera.
Source: Deadly Gaze -
In the books, the origin of the "Gorgon stare" is an extremely rare variety of brain tumor; it's also hinted that said tumor is a multi-species thing, and responsible for the myths about gorgons (when it occurs in humans), basilisks (snakes) and cockatrices (chickens).
Source: Taken for Granite
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Snakes and Basilisks. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 30, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/basilisks/snakes
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