Assertion: basilisk | /r/HasProperty | born
Facets:
value: from a chicken’s egg
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The basilisk is often confused with the cockatrice, but the basilisk is born from a chicken’s egg hatched beneath a toad, while the cockatrice is hatched by a chicken's egg incubated by a serpent.
text: Like its bird-lizard cousin, the Cockatrice, basilisks are said to be born from a union of serpents and roosters.
text: It is born from a chicken’s egg that is hatched beneath a toad; its fangs are poisonous and its stare is lethal.
text: The basilisk is born from a spherical yolkless egg, which was laid by a seven-year rooster and hatched by a toad.
text: Author Bede was the first to acknowledge the legend that a basilisk is born from the egg of an old rooster, then other authors added the condition of the constellation Sirius being ascendant in the sky at the time.
text: Another possibility, a basilisk could be born from an egg laid by a seven-year-old cock during the days of the dog star Siriuius and hatched by a toad.