Basilisk

Gigantic serpent known as the King of Serpents, whose direct gaze is instantly fatal.

Core Characteristics

• Hatched from a chicken egg incubated beneath a toad.
• Spiders flee before it; the crowing of a rooster is fatal to it.
• Its venom is one of the few substances that can destroy a Horcrux.

Related Concepts & Sources

Basilisk (World Mythology), Phoenix, Dark Magic