tarantula-dance

Updated: May 16, 2025

But for this tarantula-dance the great hawk-nose would still be sitting as professor at his lecturing desk, and tickling the young goslings with philosophy and wisdom as they perkt up their yellow beaks to catch the crumbs he dropt into them.

Ludwig Tieck - The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano: Tales from the German of Tieck