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Cockatrice
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A cockatrice is a legendary creature about the size and shape of a dragon or wyvern, but in appearance resembling a giant rooster, with some lizard-like characteristics. It was supposed to be born from an egg laid by a Cock and incubated by a toad or serpent. A female cockatrice is, by analogy, sometimes termed a chickatrice.

Its reputed magical abilities include turning people to stone by either looking at them, touching them, or sometimes breathing on them, like a dragon breathing fire. The cockatrice is very similar (if not identical) to another legendary creature, the basilisk. Its name may come from a folk etymology for crocodile.

Like the head of Medusa, the cockatrice's powers of petrification are still effective after death. For example, as a creature in the roguelike game NetHack, its petrification capabilities make it a particularly fearsome monster as well as a formidable weapon once slain (assuming the wielder has some protection against the effects). There is also a Magic: The Gathering cockatrice card, similar to the basilisk one (both featuring "petrification" powers). In the computer role-playing game Final Fantasy IV, the cockatrice (or "cocatrice") is a summoned monster with the power to turn an enemy monster into stone.
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