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B11.12.1. Dragon cannot be killed with weapons. Wesselski Mönchslatein 171 No. 136; Irish myth: Cross; Eng.: Baughman; Gaster Oldest Stories 69.
A2468.3. Why dragon dies by means of fire. K1840.2. Magic invulnerability of animals.
B11.12.1.1. Dragon which cannot be killed with weapons is kicked in vulnerable spot. England: Baughman.
B11.12.1.2. Dragon dips wounded part in holy well, is healed immediately. England: Baughman.
B11.12.2. Dragon's shriek makes land barren. Irish myth: Cross; MacCulloch Celtic 130.
B741. Lion's roar causes havoc at 300 miles. B741.1. Cry of giant ox impregnates all fish. D2081. Land magically made sterile.
B11.12.3. Fiery dragon. Irish myth: Cross.
B11.2.11. Fire-breathing dragon. B11.11.3. Dragon combats attack with showers of fiery spines. B15.7.13. Bird with fiery beak. B15.7.14. Bird with tail of fire. B19.4. Glowing animals. D1271. Magic fire. F574. Luminous person.
B11.12.4. Dragon is fond of milk.
B11.12.4.1. Dragon is fed great quantities of milk to keep him pacified. England: *Baughman.
B11.12.5. The dragon-king. Chinese: Eberhard 25 No. 13,65, 87 No. 7,158, 245 No. 190.
B11.12.6. Dragon can hear a child cry even at great distance. India: Thompson-Balys.
B11.12.7. Human-dragon marriage. Chinese: Eberhard 49, 64f., 103, 135, No. 92.
B12. Basilisk. A mythical lizard or serpent whose hissing drives away all other serpents. — *Polívka Zs. f. Vksk. XXVII 46ff.; *Fb "basilisk"; *A Guichot y Sierra El Basilisco (Folklore Español III 9—83); *Norlind Skattsägner 46 n. 1; Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. "Basilisk"; Köhler-Bolte I 133. — English: Wells Manual of Writings 105 (Prose Alexander); Jewish: Neuman.
B12.1. Basilisk hatched from cock's egg. Usually, a seven-year-old cock. Egg must lie in manure. (Cf. B11.1.1.) — *Polívka Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 46ff.; *Fb. "basilisk" I 53a, IV 29a; De Vries Het Sprookje 19—97; Taylor PMLA XXXVI 35ff.; Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. "Basilisk".
B12.2. Basilisk's fatal glance. Renders powerless or kills. — *Fb "basilisk" I 53a, IV 29a, "øje" III 1167b; Penzer VIII 75 n.l.
D2061.2.1. Death-giving glance. D2071. Evil Eye.
B12.3. Basilisk killed by seeing own image. *Fb "basilisk" I 53a, "spejl" III 48a; Ward Catalogue of Romances III 194; Oesterley Gesta Romanorum No. 139; Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 935.
B13. Unicorn. (Cf. B15.7.2.) — *Type 1640; *BP I 164; **Odell Shepard The Lore of the Unicorn (London, 1929); **Robert Brown Jr. The Unicorn, a Mythological Investigation (London, 1881); Howey Horse in Magic and Myth 232f.; Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. "Einhorn"; Bolte Reise der Sonne Giaffers 212; Icel.: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Ferguson 98.
K771. Unicorn tricked into running horn into tree. A2214.3. Unicorn thrown from ark and drowned: hence extinct.
