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COCKATRICE , a fabulous See also: monster, the existence of which was firmly believed in throughout See also:ancient and See also:medieval times,—descriptions and figures of it appearing in the natural See also:history See also:works of such writers as See also:Pliny and Aldrovandus, those of the latter published so See also:late as the beginning of the 17th See also:century. Produced from a See also:cock's See also:egg hatched by a See also:serpent, it was believed to possess the most deadly See also:powers, See also:plants withering at its See also:touch, and men and animals dying poisoned by its look. It stood in
See also:awe, however, of the cock, the See also:sound of whose crowing killed it, and consequently travelers were wont to take this See also:bird with them in travelling over regions supposed to abound in cockatrices. The See also:weasel alone among mammals was unaffected by the glance of its evil See also:eye, and attacked it at all times successfully; for when wounded by the monster's See also:teeth it found a ready remedy in rue—the only plant which the cockatrice could not See also:wither. This myth reminds one of the real contests between the weasel-like mungoos of See also:India and the deadly See also:cobra, in which the latter is generally killed. The See also:term " cockatrice " is employed on four occasions in the See also:English See also:translation of the See also:Bible, in all o1 which it denotes nothing more than an exceedingly venomous reptile; it seems also to be synonymous with " See also:basilisk," the mythical See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of serpents.
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