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Please feel free to correct errors all you like. This is my first page, and I'm very open to constructive criticism. -Iamthecheese
The following text text was removed since it was spoiling the game:
It is part of Nethack to die in as many stupid way as possible. Especially stupid ways involving the cockatrice. The proper way to use the dead cockatrice must be learned painfully.
APOLOGIES but could work out how to start a new section. This article has a "Modern Literature" section, and I just wondered if you wanted to add the Xanth books by Piers Antony. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.58.21 ( talk) 07:57, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
A cock is a male rooster. Is it really supposed to lay eggs? (Anon.)
"The last public record of a cockatrice occurs in a Church document of births and deaths in Warsaw, dated 1587. Written by monks, the entry states that two young sisters died when exposed to the breath of a cockatrice in their cellar. The document calls for God to bless the girls' family and to keep it from the evil that takes innocents.
The Dragonology book, however, says a cockatrice kills by breathing on its victims. Its breathe contains poisonous droplets. The book also says the cockatrice does not kill by looking at its prey."
The html of the first section suggests that this has been cut-and-pasted from a source with a narrower column-format. Can some public source for this assertion be located, and some identification found of "The Dragonology book"? -- Wetman 06:42, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- I find it ludicrous that the cockatrice is so immediately compared to a wyvern. If anything, a cockatrice with its associations to petrification would be more related to a basilisk. A wyvern by contrast is a semi-draconian creature, not directly related to pure dragons, that have poisonous tails. I am ashamed of the blatant lack of cryptozoological expertise on wikipedia. —Preceding
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The reference to the cockatrice as the original Blood Elf mount in the World of Warcraft expansion is given twice. I suggest deleting the second reference. 63.228.45.224 19:58, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
user:Wetman has removed section “Analogous creatures” and I have replaced it. It is properly referenced and relevant to the article. (From looking at the history of the article I see that user:Wetman has been removing references to such creatures since 14 December 2005.)81.158.163.199 08:23, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
To round this off for future editors reading this, I cleaned up the section. The duckatrice poem and nethack creature look to be real, so were left. Drachentaube was removed due to the article being deleted (via an afd). The second duckatrice reference was removed as there weren't reliable sources. The BBC article mentioned by the anon above call him a 'Four-legged duckling' and his owners call him 'Stumpy'. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6371901.stm The duckling is real but he isn't a duckatrice. Polenth 02:02, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
I removed the following sentence from the first paragraph since it has no relevance on this article:
If cockatrices, on the other hand, are confused with salamanders (and I can't imagine why), feel free to correct this sentence and re-enter it. – Adrian Lozano 21:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
The information listed for Final Fantasy, regarding a Cockatrice being used as livestock may be incorrect. I believe it is refering to the Chocobo, which shares very few features with the Cockatrice. Briefly, it resembles a ostrich, with a parakeet head instead of the long neck. It attacks with kicks, as opposed to any sort of petrification or magical breath. It is mostly used as a riding animal, mascot, or comic relief character. It has no reptilian characteristics whatsoever. Other then being a sort of monsterous chicken-creature, it does not seem to have any relation to the Cockatrice.
Unless I am entirely mistaken about what the article refeers to, this section should be removed. -- 216.254.28.72 21:05, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
The article is correct. For that particular FF game they were a form of farm animal. http://www.ffcompendium.com/h/espmon/cockatrice.shtml —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.31.118.241 ( talk) 11:24, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
We definitely need an image of this. Clerks. 13:15, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if we can get a ruling on the pronunciation. I always pronounced it with an I like in "machine," but I heard a character in a movie use a long i. That charatcter, as I recall, was a redneck type, so I'm not sure if I can take that pronunciation as correct. Thanks. -- Scottandrewhutchins ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:37, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't intros (the text that comes before the table of contents) usually smaller and meant to give a brief explanation of the article's subject? The intro seems to take up just about two thirds of the whole article. I think that the intro should be re-catagorized into at least two different sections (to be listed under the table of contents); and the actual intro should be a short paragraph, EX: "The Cockatrice is a mythological beast that..." Krakenen ( talk) 05:15, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but either it's a Basilisk or it's not, And in Harry Potter's case it was a Basalisk that he killed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shreder 02 ( talk • contribs) 16:03, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
This section is chaotic and needs much condensing or a rewrite. Also, cockatrices are encountered as far back as the original Final Fantasy. Shinobu ( talk) 20:30, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
A recent anonymous editor removed one of those little citation tags that are so easy to scatter about like breadcrumbs, with the summary: Yes, I looked this up in a book and it said it was thought a basilisk would die if it heard a rooster crow. So I deleted the [citation needed] that was put there. It shouldn't be necessary to remind editors that this is not actually a citation of a reputable source and adds no weight to the text. Nevertheless, I haven't restored the tag, as they seem unhelpful, lazy and prone to abuse.--Wetman 06:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Both Cockatrice and Basilisk link to de:Basilisk (Mythologie), which seems a bit odd, as they're different creatures. I don't know if there is a German equivalent to the Cockatrice, though. (The German article mentions no wings anywhere, which are supposed to be what distinguishes a cockatrice from a basilisk.) -- 87.165.232.118 ( talk) 07:26, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
And how about a "Use as Heraldic Symbol" subsection? If anyone wants to make it:
Thanks a lot, Yahoo. 174.21.24.126 ( talk) 05:01, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
The following strained reaches have been moved here:
> http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazine/17-03/st_qa —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.191.54 ( talk) 05:56, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
I have cleaned up the article to make it more encyclopedic and logical. I eliminated a lot of the footnotes because they really have no place here, some being just chatty asides and others containing important material which belonged in the body of the text.
The article still needs more work. Most importantly, someone needs to relocate the Breiner article and extract the factual matter. Unfortunately as it stands - or rather droops - the article incorporates commentary about Breiner but not his actual findings.
Overall it also needs a more logical organisation.-- Jack Upland ( talk) 23:40, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
What's the difference between a cockatrice and a wyvern? Is it just the rooster's head of the cockatrice? VenomousConcept ( talk) 14:04, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
I removed a recent addition by USER:All Worlds who took a passage from Isaiah out of context and claimed that the Bible taught something about mythical birds that lay flying serpent eggs; merely using a set of different Bible translations as reference (see WP:OR). Examining the verse, though, it clearly describes the traits of kings Uzziah, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. The user, from glimpsing his talk page, has made other disputed edits concerning the supposed belief in and worship of mythical birds. -- IronMaidenRocks ( talk) 22:56, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
I was surprised not to see anything about the cockatrice as the name for a Tudor culinary speciality:
http://brendanconnell.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/how-to-bake-a-cockatrice/
wyvern. good morning. greetings from a german amateur mythology expert. it's like zeus & jupiter. -- 2A02:8070:A184:A500:9587:75DB:CE85:6677 ( talk) 02:11, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
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Would it be worth mentioning the use of Cockatrice as the main villain in the novel "The Book of the Dun Cow" by Walter Wangerin Jr.? It is deeply rooted in English legends of this and other creatures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.62.68.132 ( talk) 08:00, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
What would be considered an adequate source type if one wanted to add Rhett and Link's Good Mythical Morning (whose mascot is a cockatrice and has been in every episode intro for almost a decade) to the cultural references section? I know sources like Twitter, YouTube videos, and message boards aren't acceptable. Mattevt ( talk) 04:02, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
Cockatrices are also a main feature of the children's story The Talking Parcel, by Gerald Durrell, published in 1974 2A00:23C5:B882:3E01:8CF3:38ED:6490:912B ( talk) 19:40, 30 July 2021 (UTC)