Basilisk blood.
- "Basilisk blood. It will give cooked meat a savory smell. But, if eaten, it produces violent madness... in beasts as well as men. A mouse will attack a lion after a taste of basilisk blood. But to a man who knows his heart, is not passion a form of madness?"
- ―Oberyn Martell
Basilisk blood[1] is a poison. It gives cooked meat a savory smell, and induces a savage insanity in humans and animals.
In the books[]
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the poison is a paste spiced with basilisk blood to produce basilisk venom, which gives meat a savory scent but which causes a violent madness in any creature with warm blood, whether man or beast.
The Waif tells Arya that a mouse will attack a lion after a taste of basilisk blood.
References[]
- ↑ Histories & Lore: Season 4, Short 4: "Poisons" (2015).