BASILISK Basiliscus sive regulus Grevini. Illustration of Ulisse Aldrovandi; than represents it like a incoronato reptile and with head of rooster. The basilisk is a famous fantastic animal sin from the antiquity. It lives in Cirenaica; lives in underground places: with the breath it burns the grass and ago to die the animals; moreover kills with the look. The Grevin is first of the modern ones to define it animal imaginary. "Monstrorum Historia"; 16th century.