The Basilisco chilote is a creature from Chilota mythology originating from the Chiloé Archipelago, in southern Chile.
It is hatched from an egg that is incubated by a rooster and lives in a hole which it digs under a house.
It feeds on the phlegm and saliva of the people who live in the house, causing the inhabitants to dehydrate and eventually die.
This myth is based upon myths of the Colo Colo and the basilisk,[citation needed] but borrows more from the tradition of the cockatrice,[citation needed] which itself draws from the basilisk.
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