Talk:Cockatrice

message: The following text text was removed since it was spoiling the game:
:as well as a formidable weapon once slain (assuming the wielder has some protection against the effects).
It is part of Nethack to die in as many stupid way as possible.  Especially stupid ways involving the cockatrice.  The proper way to use the dead cockatrice must be learned painfully.
APOLOGIES but could work out how to start a new section.
This article has a "Modern Literature" section, and I just wondered if you wanted to add the Xanth books by Piers Antony.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.58.21 (talk) 07:57, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Less spoiling

message: The reference to the cockatrice as the original Blood Elf mount in the World of Warcraft expansion is given twice. I suggest deleting the second reference. 63.228.45.224 19:58, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplication

message: I removed the following sentence from the first paragraph since it has no relevance on this article:
:(Though a basilisk is often confused with a salamander, which has six limbs.)
If cockatrices, on the other hand, are confused with salamanders (and I can't imagine why), feel free to correct this sentence and re-enter it. –Adrian Lozano 21:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Basilisk and [[salamander]]s?

message: The information listed for Final Fantasy, regarding a Cockatrice being used as livestock may be incorrect. I believe it is refering to the Chocobo, which shares very few features with the Cockatrice. Briefly, it resembles a ostrich, with a parakeet head instead of the long neck.  It attacks with kicks, as opposed to any sort of petrification or magical breath. It is mostly used as a riding animal, mascot, or comic relief character. It has no reptilian characteristics whatsoever. Other then being a sort of monsterous chicken-creature, it does not seem to have any relation to the Cockatrice.
Unless I am entirely mistaken about what the article refeers to, this section should be removed. --216.254.28.72 21:05, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Final Fantasy fact-check

message: We definitely need an image of this. Clerks. 13:15, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't intros (the text that comes before the table of contents) usually smaller and meant to give a brief explanation of the article's subject? The intro seems to take up just about two thirds of the whole article. I think that the intro should be re-catagorized into at least two different sections (to be listed under the table of contents); and the actual intro should be a short paragraph, EX: "The Cockatrice is a mythological beast that..." Krakenen (talk) 05:15, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-Catagorization 

message: :This page needs a "History" section, where it'd be described in how it would be diffrent from a basilisk, when changes occured, what the changes were, and how old/new descriptions of the cockatrce fell in and out of use. Well, I think so anyway.
And how about a "Use as Heraldic Symbol" subsection? If anyone wants to make it:
* It has been used in many family herald/sign/bannery stuff
* It, as a heraldic symbol, is thought to mean danger
* Even though it is called a cockatrice, it resembles early descriptions of the basilisk by Aristotle
:Thought I'd share that.
:7h3 3L173 (talk) 04:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Darn history 

message: Thanks a lot, Yahoo. 174.21.24.126 (talk) 05:01, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  cockatrice spoiler link is dead 

message: The following strained reaches have been moved here:
#It is also possible that the cockatrice was inspired by the misidentification of feathered dinosaur fossils like those of Archeopteryx.
::No, Archaeoptryx is only known in the Solnhofen limestone and was first identified in the mid-19th century. The legend did not arise anywhere with a connection to Bavarian geology.--Wetman (talk) 22:25, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Does this unsourced embryological curiosity honestly need to be debated as a source for the 12th -century cockatrice?--Wetman (talk) 22:25, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Two labored impossibilities

message: I have cleaned up the article to make it more encyclopedic and logical.  I eliminated a lot of the footnotes because they really have no place here, some being just chatty asides and others containing important material which belonged in the body of the text.
The article still needs more work. Most importantly, someone needs to relocate the Breiner article and extract the factual matter.  Unfortunately as it stands - or rather droops - the article incorporates commentary about Breiner but not his actual findings.
Overall it also needs a more logical organisation.--Jack Upland (talk) 23:40, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean Up 

message: What's the difference between a cockatrice and a wyvern? Is it just the rooster's head of the cockatrice? VenomousConcept (talk) 14:04, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cockatrice/Wyvern 

message: I removed a recent addition by USER:All Worlds who took a passage from Isaiah out of context and claimed that the Bible taught something about mythical birds that lay flying serpent eggs; merely using a set of different Bible translations as reference (see WP:OR). Examining the verse, though, it clearly describes the traits of kings Uzziah, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. The user, from glimpsing his talk page, has made other disputed edits concerning the supposed belief in and worship of mythical birds. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 22:56, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I just removed the fallacious text; I wasn't aware of any previous controversy. KJV and like English texts were written millenia after the the book of Isaiah, and their specific word choice should not be used as a way of explaining the beliefs of ancient semetic peoples. The only real value such a translation has is to illustrate the ignorance of some medieval age scholars. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 07:25, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Problem solved. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 07:34, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  RV: Cockatrice Bible Abilities 

message: wyvern. good morning. greetings from a german amateur mythology expert. it's like zeus & jupiter. --2A02:8070:A184:A500:9587:75DB:CE85:6677 (talk) 02:11, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  get this... 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Would it be worth mentioning the use of Cockatrice as the main villain in the novel "The Book of the Dun Cow" by Walter Wangerin Jr.? It is deeply rooted in English legends of this and other creatures.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.62.68.132 (talk) 08:00, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural references 

message: What would be considered an adequate source type if one wanted to add Rhett and Link's Good Mythical Morning (whose mascot is a cockatrice and has been in every episode intro for almost a decade) to the cultural references section? I know sources like Twitter, YouTube videos, and message boards aren't acceptable. Mattevt (talk) 04:02, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Mythical Morning 

message: Cockatrices are also a main feature of the children's story The Talking Parcel, by Gerald Durrell, published in 1974 2A00:23C5:B882:3E01:8CF3:38ED:6490:912B (talk) 19:40, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Talking Parcel