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Basilisk

The Basilisk is a legendary serpent present in mythologies like greek, it is known as the king of serpents. It is described as a huge serpent with a golden crown, or a black or red plumage on his head. His glance is so powerful, being capable of kill someone. One of the only ways of killing Basilisk is, making himself look his eye with something like a mirror, if it's get closer. The Basilisk is so cruel, that while it can't kill animals with his mortal glance, it kills vegetation, making them dry. 

Cockatrice

Cockatrice is a mythical creature of medieval Europe, it is described as a monster with the head of a rooster and the hind body of a dragon, it walks on two legs. A colorful dragon (usually they will be red or green, the lower part is yellow). They also have a layer of scales that cover their bodies like feathers. Cockatrices are poisonous and will attack anything that moves with their beak. Cockatrice is born from the egg of a rooster, which is then hatched by a toad or snake. Cockatrice can kill people with its venom or breath. Just by looking at Cockatrice's eye, the victim will turn to stone immediately. Cockatrice's only enemies are skunks, which are immune to all magic and can kill Cockatrice with its distinctive odor. The crowing of the rooster is said to kill Cockatrice instantly. Like the head of Medusa, the cockatrice's powers of petrification were thought still active after death.

Wyvern

A wyvern was a large winged lizard, distantly related to the dragon, with a poisonous stinging tail and sharp teeth. Description These creatures varied in length from 15​ to ​35 feet (4.6​ to ​11 meters), weighed around a ton, and were covered in dark brown or grey scales. They typically had either red or orange eyes and their jaws were filled with long and sharp teeth. Unlike true dragons, wyverns only had a pair of hind legs instead of a set four. Their wingspan could get over 50 feet (15 meters) in length. And their tails were often quite long, comprising almost half of their bodies, yet very mobile. These ended in a thick cartilage knot with a stinger protruding out of it, not unlike that of a scorpion. Telltale sounds that these creatures produced included loud hisses and throated growls, similar to the vocalizations of alligators. Behavior Wyverns were aggressive and not greatly intelligent. They were not averse to attacking anything less powerful than themselves. Their sleek, st

Dragon

Dragons are the most famous and appear a lot in Western culture. They are described as having a large body, a layer of hard iron like scales covering from head to tail, their heads may have horns, antlers or crests. In particular, they have large and powerful wings that are shaped like bat wings, allowing them to fly in the sky. Dragon can easily speak in human language, enchant the enemy, plot schemes, sometimes even magic. These dragons can also breathe fire and breathe smoke. There is an outstanding feature that these dragons are completely resistant to human magic. In Russian fairy tales or of some peoples in Europe, the dragon is often depicted as a scaly reptile with a long neck and tail, four legs and wings, often with a head that breathes fire and can fly. These heads are capable of growing on their own if the old head is cut off. Some dragons have only one head and have a short, crooked snout like an eagle's beak. Also according to Western tales: dragons are often tasked w

Hydra

A species of dragon similar to Drake but its distinguishing feature is having many heads. Every time a head is cut off, two more will grow back. Hydra species usually live in aquatic environments. According to Greek mythology, Hydra is a dragon with 7 or 9 heads, the child of Echidna and Typhon. When you cut off its head, two new heads grow from the cut. One of Hercules' 12 feats was to slay this dragon. Greek literature and poetry have mentioned the Hydra monster many times with versions, but it is best known as the monster that was slain by the hero Hercules. This Hydra monster is known as the "Hydra of Lerna" because it lives in a swamp in the Lernaean region of Greece. According to legend, defeating the Hydra is impossible because cutting off one of its heads means that two more will grow in its place. To defeat this Hydra monster, the hero Hercules devised a way to burn the wounds of the heads that had just been cut off with fire so that new heads could not grow. Jus

Drake

This dragon has 4 limbs and they look like a lizard, but their size is much larger, their legs are also longer and especially they can stand upright on 4 legs. The word drake is sometimes used synonymous to dragon, but it could also mean a specific kind of dragon. There are different opinions on what a drake is: Any kind of wingless, four-legged dragon A small or young dragon, those are also called dragonlings, wyrmlings or dragonet These classifications stem from modern fantasy and are not found in classical mythology. Sometimes they are a mixture of fantasy and myth. According to some point of view, there are two kinds of drakes, fire-drakes and cold-drakes. Fire drakes have a fire breath and fiery colors like red or orange. Cold drakes however breathe frost breath and are white or light blue. This classification is most likely based on Tolkiens works, where fire drakes and cold drakes are a way to classify if a dragon could breathe fire or not. Cold drakes simply couldn't breath

Salamaner

Salamaner is a creature deified as a dragon that has a body like a giant snake but has many legs and moves extremely fast. Salamaner breathes out and has the ability to breathe fire, accompanied by large fangs and bright, wide eyes. The salamander is as with many real creatures, often has been ascribed fantastic and sometimes occult qualities by pre-modern authors (as in the allegorical descriptions of animals in medieval bestiaries) not possessed by the real organism. The legendary salamander is often depicted as a typical salamander in shape, with a lizard-like form, but is usually ascribed an affinity with fire, sometimes specifically elemental fire. Salamanders have been said to be able to both create and put out flames, and in some cases are borne of fire themselves and are considered Fire Spirits. However, in other stories they are merely fire resistant. In fairy legend salamanders are credited with having taught the first humans how to make fire. There are versions of their orig