Spiders are an ancient species that originated in the Devonian Period, with more than 40,000 species of spiders around the world, from mountain forests and lakes to plateau deserts, from tropical rainforests to snowy mountains and glaciers. In Japan, the most famous spider is undoubtedly the bride spider.
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The Bride is the most famous Spider Woman monster in Japan. Legend has it that in ancient Japan, a young and beautiful woman married a lord, and then the red apricot came out of the wall, and the lord was furious with a grassland above his head, and threw the woman into a box full of poisonous spiders, allowing the spiders to eat her flesh and blood. After the woman's death, her resentment continued, and she became one with the spider and became a bride. During the day, the bride transforms into human form, seducing young men, and at night, she becomes a spider, sucking the man's essence and blood.
There is a jinglian waterfall in Japan, and the legend is that the owner of the waterfall is the bride spider female monster, which "ambushes" the waterfall to hunt men, and few locals dare to approach. One day, a woodcutter's axe accidentally fell into a waterfall, so he had to jump into it to salvage, and accidentally saw the bride, who told the woodcutter: Don't tell others that you saw me, you can spare you from death! The woodcutter kept his mouth shut, until later he got drunk and told the story, and died that night, and the body was dragged by several spider silks and "walked" to the waterfall by himself...
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The bride is the most famous spider yokai in Japan, good at booby-trapping men with beauty, of course, this kind of yokai does not exist in reality, but there are such "vicious" spiders.
The bride spider refers to all the spiders of the network bride family, and there are 61 species found so far, and the more common are the two kinds of spiders, the spotted bride and the stick bride. The bride is more vigorous, spanning 12 centimeters, about twice as large as the bride of the rod, while the bride of the rod is relatively petite and the color is more gorgeous and bright.
The Spotted Bride (left); The Rod Bride (right)
The back of the spider's head resembles a human face, so some places call it "human face spider". The spider is quite mild in temperament, basically does not attack people, and will only eat her husband, which is harmless to people and animals.
Among the spiders, the toughness of the spider silk is among the best, it will generally weave three layers of webs when weaving the web, so that the web is particularly strong, so that the spotted bride spider can often catch birds, and also get the title of "bird catching spider". In addition, the spider silk of the spotted bride is golden, and some people use it to make clothes, which is very expensive.
In fact, the spotted bride spiders we usually see are basically female, because female spiders are about 12 cm long on average, but they are about 10 times that of males, and males are only 1-2 cm, which is usually difficult to be noticed by humans.
In Japanese legend, bridespeople use beauty to booby trap men, and so do the brides. Because of the large difference in body size when mating, the brown bride can easily eat the male, which is the best way to provide more energy for the offspring. Females use mating to eat males, a phenomenon that is common in spiders and praying mantises and is known as the "sex-eating homosexual".
Many literary works glorify male praying mantises or spiders as beautiful images of voluntary sacrifice of offspring, but this is not the case, and males are no longer trying to survive. As soon as the male spotted bride spider senses that the female has the intention of eating herself, she stops mating, quickly runs to the top of its head, uses massage to soothe its emotions, and waits for the mood to stabilize before continuing to the next step. It can be seen that the male spotted bride spider wants to retreat and continue to look for the next female, rather than seeing death as a homecoming.