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:iconakeyla:
badge for this weekends Meeting in Basel, Basler Furmeet.
We're gonna hang round on the fair and then eat some flamkuchen togheter.
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:icondakuske:
~dakuske Nov 7, 2008
As in Furcadia?? :o
Liek... Wow! Hi! Never knew you liked Furcadia... If this is what I think you're talking about... x3
Anyway, great badge! :3

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*akeyla Nov 8, 2008
ah, nope, I dont know furcadia. BFM= Basler Fur Meet
thanks!
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~ProfHauke Oct 31, 2008
That's a wonderful badge! Beautiful work as always.
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~xXblackwolfXx Oct 30, 2008
Cool, ich wusste noch gar nicht, dass es das gibt :D
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~EpineQueen Oct 30, 2008
Pretty basilisk! (It bugs me that the Baslers, already hundreds of years ago, mixed up their basilisks and cockatrices. Or is there no German word for cockatrice?)

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*akeyla Oct 30, 2008
Thanks!

the german word for cockatrice is Basilisk. Hence Basil = Basel. Its unsure which gave what the name, some doubt it, but I am convinced that Basel and the Basilisk that "inhabited" the place are in direct relation.
The Basilisk was said to be either an egg laid by a 2or 3 year old black cock (hence most cocks would always get butchered before that and black ones were really really rare) and a snake would come and hatch the egg and poof = Basilisk. I think that is why "old" Basilisks are often pictured as more chicken than other (and also rather small). Basel also got famous because it had the first law action on a Basilisk... someone saw a cock lay an egg and the cock was officially by law damned to dead and the egg burnt.

then again some legends say that Basilisks can be "manmade" (I think its the only mythical creature that can be "made") by placing a bottle of human menstruation blood into the tummy of a horse. And this was actually done... poor thing. Of course no Basilisk ever "came out".

(this is based on a book I read, I am not sure how much of all is really the thruth. And it seems to me that the "snake Basilisk" came after the chicken version. I admit I was actually shocked that Rowlings version was no more than a modified snake.)
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~EpineQueen Oct 30, 2008
I've come to define basilisk as eight-legged snakes with deadly breath. The word "basilisk" comes from the Greek and means "king of snakes." Cockatrices, for me, are exclusively the chicken-headed, dragon-winged, lizard-tailed creatures. Historically speaking, though, it seems that a basilisk was originally a serpent with a crown-like marking on its head. As time passed, naturalists claim to watch basilisks hatch from eggs laid by cocks, which gave rise to the name "cockatrice" but allowed the terms to get mixed up, as they still are.
Either way, they're both cool critters and I'm proud we have two cantons named after the basilisk. :D

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