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Updated: May 2, 2025
The Wizard of the Landes tells us of the ordinary Tarantula, that of the Calabrias, observed by him in Spain: 'Lycosa tarantula by preference inhabits open places, dry, arid, uncultivated places, exposed to the sun. She lives generally at least when full-grown in underground passages, regular burrows, which she digs for herself.
"Just then one of my eyes saw a roadrunner skipping down the hill with a young tarantula in his bill, and the other eye noticed a rabbit-hawk sitting on a dead limb in a water-elm. I popped over one after the other with my forty-five, just to show him . 'Two out of three, says I. 'Birds just naturally seem to draw my fire wherever I go. "'Nice shooting, says the sheep man, without a flutter.
I saw a mass of them draw themselves up into the likeness of a tent skyscraper high; hang so for an instant, then writhe into a monstrous chimera of a dozen towering legs that strode away like a gigantic headless and bodiless tarantula in steps two hundred feet long.
The thought was torment, and totally unable to restrain her keen anxiety to be instantly informed upon this topic, Zuleika gasped out: "Were you not, Espérance, as guilty as your former friend?" The young man leaped to his feet as if a tarantula had bitten him. "No, no!" cried he. "I was innocent of all blame in the matter! Luigi Vampa "
"And wake up to find a sidewinder crawling over you, and a tarantula nestling in your ear. Don't think of it." "Ban," called the voice of Camilla Van Arsdale from the inner room, clear and firm as he had ever heard it. He went in. She stretched out a hand to him. "It's good to see you, Ban. Have I worried you? I shall be up and about again to-morrow."
It is the bayou, even though it be invaded with the ruthless vandalism of the improving idea, and can a boat-house kill the beauty of a moss-grown centurion of an oak with a history as old as the city? Can an iron bridge with tarantula piers detract from the song of a mocking-bird in a fragrant orange grove?
Those sometimes met with are the species of tarantula known as the hairy spider, the spider known as guava, and the blue spider, also the scorpion and the centipede. Their sting produces intense pain, inflammation and fever. They are found in crevices, under stones, in caves, and in rotten wood.
During most of this journey Clement rarely felt any spring of life within him, but when he was in the pulpit. The other exceptions were, when he happened to relieve some fellow-creature. A young man was tarantula bitten, or perhaps, like many more, fancied it. Fancy or reality, he had been for two days without sleep, and in most extraordinary convulsions, leaping, twisting, and beating the walls.
The Italians have bestowed a bad reputation on the Tarantula, who produces convulsions and frenzied dances in the person stung by her. To cope with 'tarantism, the name given to the disease that follows on the bite of the Italian Spider, you must have recourse to music, the only efficacious remedy, so they tell us. Special tunes have been noted, those quickest to afford relief.
That, of course, is the proper way to die under such circumstances. They all do it in print. Now let us see about the "agony." There was very little swelling, and the man paid no heed to the occurrence, but went on with his work. I have talked with a Southern Pacific Railroad fireman who was jabbed on the wrist by a large tarantula.
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