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A spider on the other hand is an arthropod, made up of a cepolothorax joined to an abdomen. It does not grow wings at any stage of its life. It is eight-legged, and in place of the normal insect antennae it has pedipalps. A spider generally has eight simple eyes or it could have six eyes e.g. a spitting spider. Depending on the species the eyesight may be well or poorly developed.
And so Odin, no longer riding on Sleipner, his eight-legged steed; no longer wearing his golden armor and his eagle-helmet, and without even his spear in his hand, traveled through Midgard, the World of Men, and made his way toward Jötunheim, the Realm of the Giants. No longer was he called Odin All-Father, but Vegtam the Wanderer.
'The hideous, gray, eight-legged spider! I exclaimed to myself, when I raised my arms and saw my shadow on the sunlit ground. 'The spider! I thought, when I shook the distaff to draw threads from the flax in leisure hours. 'Your image! I said, when I saw spiders hanging in dusty corners, and catching flies and gnats. All these things made me a horror to myself.
Often the child stayed with him by the Rainbow Bridge, and saw the Gods pass to and from Midgard: Thor, with his crown of stars, with the great hammer Miölnir in his hands, with the gloves of iron that he used when he grasped Miölnir; Thor in his chariot drawn by two goats and wearing the belt that doubled his strength; Frigga, with her dress of falcon feathers, flying swiftly as a bird; Odin All-Father himself, riding upon Sleipner, his eight-legged steed, clad all in golden armor, with his golden helmet, shaped like an eagle, upon his head, and with his spear Gungnir in his hand.
As it fell to the ground, a huge spider if an eight-legged creature with spines instead of hair, many-faceted eyes, and a bloated, globular body weighing hundreds of pounds, may be called a spider leaped upon it and, mighty mandibles against poisonous sting, the furious battle raged.
I have tracked the tufted pocolunas to his lair; I have slain the eight-legged galliwampus; I have bearded the wallipaloova in his noisome den, and gazed into the glaring eyeballs of the fierce Numidian liar; and I'll try everything once except this. But I have known too many too-charming girls too well. To love them," said Francis Charles sadly, "was a business education."
And his feet are enormous, as every one knows." "Well, I want more than just one pair," Daddy Longlegs piped up. "I want four making eight shoes in all. And I flatter myself that my feet are very small," he added. Jimmy Rabbit looked a bit surprised at that remark. He was not accustomed to seeing eight-legged people in his shop.
'The hideous, gray, eight-legged spider! I exclaimed to myself, when I raised my arms and saw my shadow on the sunlit ground. 'The spider! I thought, when I shook the distaff to draw threads from the flax in leisure hours. 'Your image! I said, when I saw spiders hanging in dusty corners, and catching flies and gnats. All these things made me a horror to myself.
He mounted Sleipner, his eight-legged steed, and rode down toward the abodes of the Dead. For three days and three nights of silence and darkness he journeyed on. Once one of the hounds of Helheim broke loose and bayed upon Sleipner's tracks. For a day and a night Garm, the hound, pursued them, and Odin smelled the blood that dripped from his monstrous jaws.
But since it's only the trap of the common English garden spider, why, we all pass it by without deigning even to glance at it. At night my eight-legged friends slept always in their own homes or nests under shelter of the rose-leaves.
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