PARA-159-Cockatrice

Caretaker Status: Unknown

Affiliated companion(s): COM-23-159-1

Level 3 - concrete
Word: Cockatrice

Origin:
late 14c., from Old French cocatriz, altered (by influence of coq) from Late Latin *calcatrix, from Latin calcare "to tread" (from calx (1) "heel;" see calcaneus), as translation of Greek ikhneumon, literally "tracker, tracer."

Definition:
a legendary monster with a deadly glance, supposedly hatched by a serpent from the egg of a cock, and commonly represented with the head, legs, and wings of a cock and the body and tail of a serpent.
Compare basilisk.

Magic Status: 1 - Neophyte
Tier 1 - Has a gaze which briefly stuns others in place. (Does not turn them to stone, or anything of that sort.)

Wisdom Status: 0 - Unaware