The bite of a basilisk was said to be deadly, but the breath of a basilisk was supposedly just as venomous. Most famously, a basilisk was said to be able to kill a man just by making eye contact with it. According to mythology, weasels were the only creatures that were immune to the deathly gaze of the basilisk. One documented instance of a basilisk hunter comes from 1587 in Poland, where a man covered in leather and mirrors hunted and captured a basilisk after it killed two small girls and a nurse.