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Description
The first recorded Basilisk was bred by Herpo the Foul, a Greek
Dark wizard and Parselmouth, who discovered after much
experimentation that a chicken egg hatched beneath a toad would
produce a gigantic serpent possessed of extraordinarily dangerous
powers.
The Basilisk is a brilliant green serpent that may reach up to fifty
feet in length. The male has a scarlet plume upon its head. It has
exceptionally venomous fangs but its most dangerous means of
attack is the gaze of its large yellow eyes. Anyone looking directly
into these will suffer instant death.
If the food source is sufficient (the Basilisk will eat all mammals
and birds and most reptiles), the serpent may attain a very great
age. Herpo the Foul’s Basilisk is believed to have lived for close on
nine hundred years.
The creation of Basilisks has been illegal since medieval times,
although the practice is easily concealed by simply removing the
chicken egg from beneath the toad when the Department for the
Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures comes to call. However, since Basilisks are uncontrollable except by Parselmouths,
they are as dangerous to most Dark wizards as to anybody else, and
there have been no recorded sightings of Basilisks in Britain for at
least four hundred years.

Description
The first recorded Basilisk was bred by Herpo the Foul, a Greek
Dark wizard and Parselmouth, who discovered after much
experimentation that a chicken egg hatched beneath a toad would
produce a gigantic serpent possessed of extraordinarily dangerous
powers.
The Basilisk is a brilliant green serpent that may reach up to fifty
feet in length. The male has a scarlet plume upon its head. It has
exceptionally venomous fangs but its most dangerous means of
attack is the gaze of its large yellow eyes. Anyone looking directly
into these will suffer instant death.
If the food source is sufficient (the Basilisk will eat all mammals
and birds and most reptiles), the serpent may attain a very great
age. Herpo the Foul’s Basilisk is believed to have lived for close on
nine hundred years.
The creation of Basilisks has been illegal since medieval times,
although the practice is easily concealed by simply removing the
chicken egg from beneath the toad when the Department for the
Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures comes to call. However, since Basilisks are uncontrollable except by Parselmouths,
they are as dangerous to most Dark wizards as to anybody else, and
there have been no recorded sightings of Basilisks in Britain for at
least four hundred years.