Cockatrice: Figurative

The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.