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In Japanese folklore, the '''jorogumo''' is a monstrous spider often associated with the supernatural "masters" (nushi 主) of deep pools ...folktale motif tells how, while a man is resting near waterfall or pool, a spider (often a jorogumo) appears and attaches a thread to his leg or toe. The man

[[Image:Tsuchigumo.jpg|thumb|right|Illustration of a tsuchigumo (earth spider) being attacked by four legendary warriors, including General Minamoto Raik ...called '''Yatsukahagi''' (八握脛) is a yokai that usually appears as a giant spider.

...ding the de Loys' Ape is a hoax and that the photograph shows only a posed spider monkey carcass, though cryptozoology enthusiasts and a few others support t ...der monkey, but was much larger: 1.57 meters tall (compared to the largest spider monkeys, which are just over a meter tall). De Loys counted 36 teeth (most

A terrifying, man-eating monster that look like a spider with the size of a mountain.

'''Kumonga''' (クモンガ) is a giant spider kaiju that appeared in the Toho produced Godzilla series. Kumonga is a giant spider reported to dwell in the jungle of Sogellel Island by the journal of the no

...giant spider''), also known as the '''Congolese Giant Spider''' is a giant spider that allegedly lives in the densely forested areas of Congo, Uganda and Cen ...gurite Lloyd were driving a Ford truck through a trail when they spotted a spider resembling a tarantula crossing the path ahead of them. The creature's legs

...ver, is disputed as being coerced by detectives). He was dubbed '''The Red Spider''' by the press, a nickname derived from his correspondence with the police

...r-Man comics feature a villain named Hobgoblin, first appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #238 written by Roger Stern.

...nd the other gunslingers throughout this adventure, shifting from human to spider as the need arises, seething with an instinctive rage toward Roland, his "w ...fends his dinh, providing the extra seconds needed to exterminate the were-spider. Unfortunately, Oy is impaled on a tree and dies. Roland continues on to hi

'''Ganga and Jamuna Mondal''' (or Jandal) (born in 1969), also known as ''The Spider Girls'', are conjoined twins that work as sideshow performers. ...t walk and crawl on their hands and feet, earning them the show name ''The Spider Girls''.

...odzilla killed two of the Kamacuras with the third one killed by the giant spider Kumonga. However, a fourth Kamacuras retreated to Monster Island where it h

...th a horned head like a bull or an oni, and a body like a gigantic crab or spider which is said to lurk in the southern Sea of Japan, from Shimane prefecture

...l'' rather curiously placed the heads of the three creatures onto a set of spider legs.

...e game, Spider-Man: Mysterio's Menace, the skeletons are the enemies. Like Spider-Man himself, they could climb through ceilings.

*''[[Tsuchigumo]]'' (giant [[spider]]s) ...i-oni]]'', a cow demon that is sometimes depicted with the body of a giant spider.

...his father started to very much love him. Together they defeated the giant spider Kumonga. Godzilla and Minilla were placed in hibernation when a group of sc

* A spider web across the face, especially at night.

...d is nimble enough to scale sheer surfaces with amazing speed, much like a spider. The Vampire is able to avoid gunfire easily, and reacts with unnatural qu ...lklore, the Vampire is able to assume the form of a fox, a moth, an owl, a spider, a locust, a cat, a dog, a frog, a snake, a fly, a flea, a mouse, or a rave

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...and in the southern United States he has evolved into Aunt Nancy. He is a spider, but often acts and appears as a man. ...n the Ashanti people in Ghana. (The word Anansi is Akan and means, simply, spider.) They later spread to other Akan groups and then to the West Indies, Surin

...st,'' ''nation sack,'' ''black cat bone,'' ''graveyard dirt,'' and ''black spider dumplings.''

* In the Marvel 2099 Universe, as the villain Thanatos, appearing in Spider-Man 2099 and possibly other comics in the 2099 series.

|The Wolf-Spider |The Spider Demon

* Name of Monster in My Pocket #102. He appears as a spider with heads of an old man, a frog, and a cat--in short, like Baal. This appe

...l'' things of a supernatural nature, most usually vampires. However, in '''Spider-Man: The Animated Series''', [[Blade]] is indeed a Dhampir, a son of a [[Va

*Jorōgumo - a spider woman *Tsuchigumo - a giant spider which was defeated by Minamoto no Raikō

* ''Siun'' - A spider-like goblin. Kitto's former Mistress. Had previously raped Rhys and taken h

*2004 - In issue 14 of the Spectacular Spider-Man, Morbius the Living Vampire is drawn to look like Count Orlok.

...tation that a butterfly caught in a web will soon be [exsanguinated by the spider. The seductive, possibly addictive, power of this type of activity, exhibit

Atlach-Nacha resembles a huge spider with an almost-human face. It dwells in a huge cavern deep beneath [[Mount ...a]]. Because of its appearance, Atlach-Nacha is often referred to as the ''Spider-God(dess)'' and is believed to be the regent of all spiders. Furthermore, t

...poll amongst college students which "revealed that student radicals ranked Spider-Man and the Hulk alongside the likes of Bob Dylan and Che Guevara as their

* [[Lucian Staniak]] - dubbed "The Red Spider" and "The Red Ripper"; killed 6 to 20 women

* The character Will o' the Wisp in the Spider-Man comic books is named after the phenomenon. He is capable of passing th

...does Drizzt refuse to reside in the Underdark, he has renounced the Drow's Spider-Queen Lloth(instead embracing Mielikki, goddess of the forests and rangers)

...d is nimble enough to scale sheer surfaces with amazing speed, much like a spider. The Vampire is able to avoid gunfire easily, and reacts with unnatural qu ...lklore, the Vampire is able to assume the form of a fox, a moth, an owl, a spider, a locust, a cat, a dog, a frog, a snake, a fly, a flea, a mouse, or a rave

...life cycle for some species. The female [[red-back spider]], [[black widow spider]], [[praying mantis]], and [[scorpion]] sometimes eat the male after mating

*'''The Green Goblin''' is a villainous character in the Marvel Comics Spider-Man comic book series .

...Seward's patient [[Renfield]], an insane man who means to consume insects, spider s, and birds, and other creatures; in ascending order of size; in order to

...metic changes to the Dalek casing to radical ones like the multi-legged "[[Spider Daleks]]" concept (first proposed for an early version of the 1996 ''Doctor