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  1. The Basilisk and Rattlesnake, or a Euro-pean Monster Comes to America. Boria.Boria Sax - 1994 - Society and Animals 2 (1):3-15.
    This article looks at legends of the basilisk, a fabulous creature of ancient and medieval lore that was believed to kill with a glance, and shows how many characteristics of the basilisk were transferred to the rattlesnake in the New World. The deadly power of "fascination, " also known as "the evil eye, " which legend attributes to both basilisk and rattlesnake, was understood as an expression of resentment over the perceived lack of status of reptiles in the natural world (...)
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  2. Animals in Religion.Boria Sax - 1994 - Society and Animals 2 (2):167-174.
    This work argues that the collective memory of prehistoric megafauna continued after their extinction and contributed to the origin of religion.
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  3. Jakob von Uexküll and the anticipation of sociobiology.Boria Sax & Peter H. Klopfer - 2001 - Semiotica 2001 (134).
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