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Final Fantasy bestiary A-E - Cockatrice

The Cockatrice is a legendary creature about the size and shape of a dragon or wyvern, but in appearance resembling a giant rooster, with some lizard-like characteristics. It was supposed to be born from an egg laid by a Cock and incubated by a toad or serpent. A female Cockatrice is, by analogy, sometimes termed a Chickatrice. Its reputed magical abilities include turning people to stone by either looking at them, touching them, or sometimes breathing on them, like a dragon breathing fire. The Cockatrice is very similar (if not identical) to another legendary creature, the Basilisk. Its name may come from a folk etymology for crocodile. A fan-translation of Final Fantasy III gives a monster the name Cockatrice, however, this monster does not bear the appearance of a bird, but rather a lizard-like appearance. There is also a bird-like monster translated to Dive Eagle in Final Fantasy III which may be the true Cockatrice of the game. The closer resemblance to Cockatrice found in Final Fantasy IX is a monster called Trick Sparrow while in Final Fantasy X, it is Condor or Divebeak in Final Fantasy X-2 sharing the exact same model.
Cockatrice has appeared in the following games:

• Final Fantasy as Cockatrice/Coctrice
• Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles as Cockatrice
• Final Fantasy IV as Cocatris/Cocktric
• Final Fantasy V as Cockataur
• Final Fantasy VII as Cockatolis
• Final Fantasy IX as Trick Sparrow
• Final Fantasy X as Condor
• Final Fantasy X-2 as Divebeak
• Final Fantasy Mystic Quest as Stoney Roost
• Final Fantasy Tactics as Cocatoris

See also: Cockatrice

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