Talk:Basilisk/@comment-5016083-20130906132038/@comment-71.23.225.154-20141127083305

Nope. The Eyes of Death are eyes. In all games with Basilisks, Cockatrices, Gorgons, and Medusas, it's the act-of-looking that turns you to stone (and killing you).

They are not poison sacks either. As we watch them emit their (gaseous poison) from their mouth and tummy.