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Pages in category "Fictional spiders" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aragog;
Miss Spider Spider Miss Spider: David Kirk: Miss Spider: Spider James and the Giant Peach: Roald Dahl: Seven flies Fly: The Brave Little Tailor: Traditional. The plot of this famous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm is set in motion by the fact that the tailor kills seven flies in one blow. When he brags about this people assume he is talking ...
Category: Spiders in literature. 1 language. ... Children's books about spiders (4 P) N. Novels about spiders (3 P) Pages in category "Spiders in literature"
Considered as the earliest known work of science fiction in Western literature, [56] the 2nd-century satirical novel A True Story by Lucian of Samosata includes a battle between the People of the Moon and the People of the Earth featuring giant spiders that are bigger than the islands of Cyclades.
List of fictional marsupials (kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, opossums, bandicoots, Tasmanian devils) List of fictional primates ( lemurs , monkeys , chimpanzees , gorillas , orangutans , humans ) Lists of characters in a fictional work (mostly people)
Shelob is a fictional monster in the form of a giant spider from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Her lair lies in Cirith Ungol ("the pass of the spider") leading into Mordor. The creature Gollum deliberately leads the Hobbit protagonist Frodo there in hopes of recovering the One Ring by letting Shelob attack Frodo.
"Gojira, a large fictional monster of the Japanese cinema, in reference to the large size of this Triassic theropod." [268] †Diplacodon gigan Mihlbachler, 2011: Odd-toed ungulate: Gigan "'Gigan' is a fictional giant horned monster first appearing in the 1972 Japanese film 'Godzilla versus Gigan' and other Godzilla films thereafter." [269]
Depictions of spiders (order Araneae) in popular culture, air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms.