# folklorethursday

Daily Cockatrice

The Cockatrice evolved from Basilisks. It's a "modern" dragon which appears in a view countries. For example in the story of the Wherwell Cockatrice (England) or the Cockatrice from lake Fagua (Chile). It has a dangerous deadly look. 👁️

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2021-04-13

Past the Meonwara on the trail of the duck egg incubated by a toad Cockatrice legend
Where even the Romsey Nuns that were lost in the forest turned into wildcats

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2020-01-02

Myths swirl around Queen Elfrida. King Edgar murdered her husband to wed her. On Edgar's death his son Edward succeeded but she used witchcraft to lure him to Corfe Castle & poison him, making her baby son King. She died at Wherwell nunnery, famed for its dragon

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2019-03-08