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In Polish folklore, which may draw from Slavic mythology, a basilisk also hatches from an egg, but the rooster must be older than seven years. The list of requirements is longer. The egg should be laid on a dung heap and incubated by toads and snakes for nine years. However, once it hatches, the basilisk could live for hundreds of years, of course, unless a nasty person with a mirror or a rooster under their arm came into its life. Or a weasel...



