Basilisco
Basilisco is a snake with a cockerel's head hatched
from a small egg laid by an old hen or coloured cockerel. The say a red worm seeps from the eggs to to
slither it’s way under Chilotan houses and withing a year the worm turns into
Basilisco. At that point, he sneaks
into bedrooms in the middle of the night, making a sort of cackling sound, and
then extracts phlegm from the people living there, followed by their breath and
energy.
It can also live in caves showing only its head to its
victim who is then struck dead by its gaze. If it only sees a part of the
victim that part is paralysed for ever.
His victims start to lose weight and dry
up until they die. This cock-headed
snake originally came from
