Reading Notes: Beauty and the Basilisk

Title: Beauty and the Basilisk

Author: Josef Baudis (1922)

Link: https://sites.google.com/view/mythfolkloreanthology/fairy-tales?authuser=0

-start story with something to captivate audience

-add enough details that the reader feels that they are involved in the story

-give brief backstory if needed

-add colorful pictures to better illustrate story

-add dialogue between characters

-maybe leave audience on a cliff hanger

The basilisk and the weasel, by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. The cockatrice (pictured) became seen as synonymous with the basilisk when the "basiliscus" in Bartholomeus Anglicus' De proprietatibus rerum (ca 1260) was translated by John Trevisa as "cockatrice" (1397).

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