The fiddleback trilogy

[dnewhous]

Not bad. The thing is - the image of the devil as a spider, any idea of the origin story of that? It isn't biblical, but that doesn't mean it isn't Christian. Satan is a dragon in the bible. Same in Babylonian religion. He's a man in Hindu, a dragon in Greek.

 

[tinkerdan]

of the cuff...
probably a play off the song.
The Devil went down to Georgia
anyway the brown recluse[violin spider]is supposed to be the deadliest spider in the US that has a fiddle image on its back.

 

[The Judge]

This might be of interest A sign of the devil or a miracle cure? How people felt about spiders in the Middle Ages

Specifically:

Mostly ... [spiders] were a source of fear and disgust. In particular, they were linked to sin and the devil: medieval literary texts are scattered with images in which their entrapment of flies is compared to the devil enmeshing the unwary in a web of sin, and dragging them off to Hell.​

 

[tinkerdan]

entrapment of flies is compared to the devil enmeshing the unwary in a web of sin, and dragging them off to Hell.

Much like the internet of today