A spider is an insect that brings good luck, and, no matter how disgusting or terrible for a person its large individuals are, you can never kill them. "You want to live, it's healthy to be a spider, do not you dare kill," warns a well-known saying, which, presumably, has saved millions of these insects during its existence. In favor of preserving life, the spider is often led by the fact that he once protected the baby Jesus during his flight to Egypt. Legend has it that during this dangerous journey the Holy Family somehow took refuge in a cave. A spider came and covered the entrance to it with a thick web, and then a dove arrived and carried an egg into it. When the pursuers arrived, they saw the intact web and, concluding that no one had visited the cave for a long time, went on without looking for it.Almost verbatim the same stories tell both about Moses and about Mohammed, when they escaped from the pursuing enemies. But all these legends seem more consequence than the reason for universal respect for the spider, which is found all over the world, including those of its corners, where neither Christianity nor Islam looked. In pagan antiquity, as well as among the current African and Asian tribes, I perceive its perception as a hardworking insect, a wise I endowed with medicinal properties and, with the exception of poisonous individuals, a benevolent and useful person.
