Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com

LXI. HOW THEY DENOTE A MAN WHO SICKENS UNDER THE REPROACH OF ACCUSATION.

When they would symbolise a man who is reproached with accusations and thence falls sick, they delineate a BASILISK; for he kills those that approach him with his breath.