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  2. Cultural depictions of spiders - Wikipedia

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    In the story, Atlach-Nacha is the reluctant recipient of a human sacrifice given to it by the toad-god Tsathoggua. [65] Spiders serve as a recurring motif in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. [66] [g] Tolkien included giant spiders in his 1937 book The Hobbit where they roamed Mirkwood, attacking and sometimes capturing the main characters. [68]

  3. Do sleeping humans really swallow 8 spiders a year? - AOL

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    But the book has no section on spiders, and the claim about eating spiders isn't there. And when someone asked asked the Library of Congress to verify if PC Professional existed, it couldn't.

  4. Category:Mythological spiders - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Mythological spiders" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total ...

  5. Category:Sleep in mythology and folklore - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help ... Category: Sleep in mythology and folklore.

  6. Legend of the Christmas Spider - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, Trinka Hakes Noble retold the story in her book, "A Christmas Spider's Miracle.". [17] [18] [19] In 2014, the story was told by Angela Yuriko Smith and Robin Wiesenthal as "The Christmas Spiders." [20] [21] [22] The story was retold in 2020 as "Tinsel the Christmas Spider" by author Pamela K. Pfertsh, illustrated by Fina Tedesco. [23]

  7. Iktomi - Wikipedia

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    In Lakota mythology, Iktómi is a spider-trickster spirit, and a culture hero for the Lakota people. Alternate names for Iktómi include Ikto , Ictinike , Inktomi , Unktome , and Unktomi . These names are due to the differences in languages between different indigenous nations, as this spider deity was known throughout many of North America's ...

  8. List of fictional arthropods - Wikipedia

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    The main antagonist of the book. He hates living on Mercury because the extreme temperatures ruin his everyday activities. In order to deal with these issues, he decides to take over Earth with the help of some mutant mosquitoes he created with his fingernails. Miss Spider Spider Miss Spider: David Kirk: Miss Spider: Spider James and the Giant ...

  9. Morpheus - Wikipedia

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    Morpheus ('Fashioner', derived from the Ancient Greek: μορφή meaning 'form, shape') [1] is a god associated with sleep and dreams. In Ovid's Metamorphoses he is the son of Somnus (Sleep, the Roman counterpart of Hypnos) and appears in dreams in human form. From the Middle Ages, the name began to stand more generally for the god of dreams ...