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Miss Brabazon having come to the close of a complicated and dreary sonata, I heard Margrave abruptly ask her if she could play the Tarantella, that famous Neapolitan air which is founded on the legendary belief that the bite of the tarantula excites an irresistible desire to dance.
"Perhaps a tarantula," suggested Gertie, who only clasped her hands and looked horrified. "Quick!" exclaimed Mrs Brook, breaking the unmanageable tape. "Ze chile is growing black and vill bust!" murmured Scholtz in real alarm.
The first time that I lighted on this Spider's burrows and discovered that they were inhabited by seeing her come to a point on the first floor of her dwelling the elbow which I have mentioned I thought that I must attack her by main force and pursue her relentlessly in order to capture her; I spent whole hours in opening up the trench with a knife a foot long by two inches wide, without meeting the Tarantula.
The symptoms which Perotti enumerates as consequent on the bite of the tarantula agree very exactly with those described by later writers. Those who were bitten, generally fell into a state of melancholy, and appeared to be stupefied, and scarcely in possession of their senses.
It was not known in the time of our fore-fathers, but now it is very common in Apulia ... and is generally called Tarantula. Its bite seldom kills a man, yet it makes him half stupid, and affects him in a variety of ways.
He ran at me across the rock. Was that one of your pet scarabs, Mr. Beetle Man?" "That was a tarantula, I suppose, from the description." "They're deadly, aren't they?" "Of course not. Unscientific nonsense. I'll go up and chase him off." "Flying from perils that you know not of to more familiar dangers?" she taunted.
The ill-famed rattlesnake does not kill so quickly, takes hours to achieve that for which the Tarantula does not require a second. We must, therefore, look for an explanation of this sudden death to the vital importance of the point attacked by the Spider, rather than to the virulence of the poison. What is this point? It is impossible to recognize it on the Bumble-bees.
It is said that the cicatrix of the tarantula bite, on the yearly or half- yearly return of the fit, became discoloured, but on this point the distinct testimony of good observers is wanting to deprive the assertion of its utter improbability.
The Dancing Mania, arising from the tarantula bite, continued with all those additions of self-deception and of the dissimulation which is such a constant attendant on nervous disorders of this kind, through the whole course of the seventeenth century.
As no ants were procurable, it was fed on raw yolk of egg, which it contrived to suck in with its long tongue not enough, however, to keep it alive during the voyage. The chief engineer exhibited a live 'Tarantula, or bird-catching spider, who was very safely barred into its box with strips of iron, as a bite from it is rather worse than that of an English adder.
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