"Another isle is there toward the north, in the sea Ocean, where that be full cruel and full evil women of nature. And
they have precious stones in their eyen. And they be of that kind, that if they behold any man with wrath, they slay him
anon with the beholding, as doth the basilisk."
John Mandeville, Ch 31; ... of the Customs of Folk in Diverse Isles that Be About in the Lordship
Of Prester John"
