The Dale Cockatrice
A Cockatrice was supposedly killed here when the peat in which it was hiding were set on fire. It had, according to local tradition been found whilst still in its egg. A woman had got her hen to sit on the egg until it hatched. Unfortunately when it hatched it ate the hen’s chicks then ran off. See also The Renwick Cockatrice.

![José Gagliardi Jr [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons](http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cockatrice.svg-212x300.png)
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