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A black mark appeared on her face, which grew into the shape of a black spider. After the second child was baptized, a storm blew in and a swarm of tiny venomous spiders emerged from the enchanted mark on Christine's face, spreading across the village and slaying the cattle in their stalls. Thus, the Devil reminded everyone of his contract.
The book was a great success, as it was a picture of real life, and not of fancifully beribboned eighteenth-century villagers. [1] Henceforth Bitzius was a prolific writer, and in the last 18 years of his life became one of the important novelists not only of Switzerland but of the German language in general.
The Black Spider by Franz Karl Basler-Kopp. The opera exploits the collision of two plots and switches back and forth between a Polish legend of the Middle Ages, adapted from Die Schwarze Spinne by Jeremias Gotthelf, and a contemporary newspaper cutting about a curse on the opening of the Tomb of Casimir IV Jagiellon in Wawel Cathedral, Kraków.
Black Spider is a super-villain and anti-hero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. While several versions of the character exist, the original version is a lesser-known adversary of Batman and notably served as a member of the Suicide Squad .
The Black Spider (German: Die schwarze Spinne) [1] is a 1921 German silent horror film directed by Siegfried Philippi [2] and starring Olga Engl, Hugo Flink, and Charles Willy Kayser. It is based on the novella The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf. It premiered in Berlin on 8 August 1921. [3]
[1] [2] The content of the "black spider" letters, named after Charles' distinctive handwriting, was known only anecdotally and from memoirs and leaks, until 13 May 2015 when the Information Tribunal ordered the release of most of the correspondence. [3]
Transmetropolitan is a cyberpunk transhumanist comic book series written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Darick Robertson; it was published by the American company DC Comics in 1997–2002. [1] The series was originally part of the short-lived DC Comics imprint Helix , but upon the end of the book's first year the series was moved to the Vertigo ...
Spider is a novel by the British novelist Patrick McGrath, originally published in the United States in 1990. In the novel, a psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator , the protagonist wrestles with mental illness and trauma from his past.