Basilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents Season 3 Episode 7 | 10m 31s | CC A venomous snake who can kill with its gaze alone, the basilisk has terrified us for thousands of years ...

The “cockatrice” of the Old Testament is a great example of this. The original Hebrew refers to tsepha, which, based on the context, is clearly some sort of nasty, poisonous animal.