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| Aug 7, 2015 at 11:24 | comment | added | b_jonas | In the nethack game, Medusa, who has a petrifying stare, is not immune to his own stare, and players usually turn her to stone by reflecting her gaze to herself. However, the more dangerous cockatrices, which petrify you when you touch them, or even when you touch their corpse, are themselves immune to petrification. mythology.stackexchange.com/q/256/197 "Why does looking at Medusa with a mirror work?" may also be related. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 11:13 | answer | added | Teebs | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 7:28 | answer | added | user13267 | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 6:58 | comment | added | axelonet | @JMFB Phoenix is not immune, it is just immortal, it turns into ash and regenerates itself. As Phoenix didn't become into ash when in Chamber of Secrets, it is to be assumed that it did not make a eye contact with the Basilisk. Refer scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50357/… | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 6:53 | comment | added | Often Right | @JMFB if a phoenix is immune, however, that means that some animals are immune so it is possible (and even probable) that a basilisk would be immune from another basilisk's gaze. This is just wild speculation on my part though | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 6:30 | comment | added | JMFB | This is a good question. I did a fair amount of research and cannot come up with a definitive answer. It appears a phoenix is immune, due to Fawkes encounter. But spiders are terrified of them since they see in 360 degrees and have no defense. So animals can be affected. Looking through glasses does give any protection, however a mirror changes the death stare into petrification. Clearly the Basilisk sees it's own reflection in the water, since it's crawling in sewers, but the question if one sees another one cannot be answered I don't think. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 5:53 | comment | added | Mr Lister | As far as I remember, "classic" basilisks can't work with mirrors; in fact that's a trick in many stories: you can look at a basilisk in a mirror. Not sure how classic JKR's basilisks are though. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 3:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/629489535186018305 | ||
| Aug 7, 2015 at 0:59 | comment | added | Slytherincess | This is a really interesting question! I'm surprised it hasn't been asked before. :) | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 0:58 | history | edited | Slytherincess | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2015 at 0:52 | history | asked | axelonet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |