"cockatrice" as charge - Githubissues

Please describe your suggested enhancement:
Please provide cockatrice as charge

Can you provide an example blazon?
Argent, a cockatrice azure, combed, beaked, wattled, and membered gules.

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Please provide any other information that you can
Cockatrice: amongst the monsters with wings the "cockatrice" and the "wyvern" 
are frequently represented in heraldry. The differ from the groups of griffins 
and dragons, inasmuch as they have only two legs, and the hinder part of the 
body ends in a large and long tail. The cockatrice is represented as having the 
head of a cock, but the tongue extended and barbed. (not always true in the 
attached images.) Otherwise it is very similar to the wyvern, the essential 
difference being that the wyvern has the head of a serpent, but with the tongue 
extended and barbed.
  The cockatrice, perhaps, when correctly drawn, should have the legs and feet of a cock -- the wyvern those of an eagle, but these details are seldom observed in representation.
  Similar to the cockatrice is the "basilisk," and it is usually held to be synonymous with it, but it is said in books of heraldry to have an additional head, like that of a dragon, at the end of the tail, and hence the basilisk is sometimes termed an "amphisian cockatrice." Similar also is the "amphistere," which is found frequently in French coats of arms, and is described as a winged serpent with dragons' feet, of which the tail ends in another serpent, or in more than one serpent; in the latter case it is said to be "gringolé of so many serpents." The "hydra" also occurs in heraldic designs, but though compared with the dragon it is more like the wyvern, having only two legs, even if it has those. The peculiarity is that it partakes somewhat of its mythological prototype, inasmuch as it has seven heads -- though in one case the blazoning especially reduces the number to five.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by pku...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2010 at 7:21
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AntonioCiolino / drawshield

"cockatrice" as charge #193
