2010-07-30

Cockatrice

Anyone familiar with the mythical beast known as a cockatrice, sometimes also called a basilisk, may also know that these creatures were supposedly hatched from eggs laid by roosters and incubated on a dunghill by a toad.

While there is of course a problem with expecting an exothermic animal like a toad to not only sit still but incubate an egg, there's the question of how to get an egg laid by a rooster.

Well, after reading about it in Ripley's Believe It or Not, I went and found this.

Mood: Thoughtful
Music: The Guess Who: "No Sugar Tonight"

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