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BANSHEE
The Banshee is a skeletal woman with black hair that reaches the floor and a green-ish face which emits
a long, wailing shriek.
BASILISK
At least twenty feet long, the Basilisk is a bright, vivid green and as
thick as the trunk of an oak tree. The fangs are as thin and long as sabers, and spread poison enough to kill within a minute.
it has yellow, bulbous eyes, and can open its mouth wide enough to swallow a person whole. Spiders fear it greatly, however
the cry of the rooster will kill it. The Basilisk has a forked tongue, scaly nose, and flat head.
From an old library book:
Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam our land, there
is none more curious or more deadky than the Basilisk, known also as the King of Serpents. This snake, which may reach gigantic
size and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken's egg, hatched beneath a toad. Its methods of killing are wondrous,
for aside from its deadly and venemous fangs, the Basilisk has a murderous stare, and all who are fixed with the beam of its
eye shall suffer instant death. Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only
from the cry of the rooster, which is fatal to it.
BOGGART
The boggart is a shape-shifting beast which lives in dark, enclosed spaces like wardrobes, desks,
and under beds. When it encounters a human, it takes the shape of the thing which will frighten the human the most. No one
knows what shape the boggarst assumes when not in contact with humans, but when it does assume a shape, we can repel it. To
do this, you can force it to revert to a form which you find amusing-- the boggart is banished by laughter. The proper Charm
to repel the boggart is Riddikulus, after which the boggart will explode and fade away into a thousand tiny
wisps of smoke.
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