For non-fatal basilisks we’d expect to see people flipping suddenly from highly intelligent and sane, to stupid and/or crazy. Specifically after researching basilisk related topics.
Yes, but you would get false positives too, such as chess (scroll down to “Real Life”—warning: TVTropes). Edited to fix link syntax—how comes after all these months I still get it wrong this often?
The post specified fatal so I followed it.
For non-fatal basilisks we’d expect to see people flipping suddenly from highly intelligent and sane, to stupid and/or crazy. Specifically after researching basilisk related topics.
Yes, this can also be reversed for a good way to see what topics are practically basilisk construction related.
Yes, but you would get false positives too, such as chess (scroll down to “Real Life”—warning: TVTropes). Edited to fix link syntax—how comes after all these months I still get it wrong this often?