i just know there was a weird little girl in the middle ages out there stealing snake’s eggs and putting them in her family’s chicken coop in the hope of hatching a basilisk
god i love the internet because if i said shit like this to people irl they’d probably just stare at me blankly but when i post it online everyone in the notes reacts like this
Are you tired of not having an answer when people ask about your favourite 12th century image of a basilisk? Because boy do I have a solution for that specific problem:
[Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 101, fol. 14v]
