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Nov 19, 2008
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Tarantula

This word is derived from Taranto the city, or from Thara the river in Apulia, in the vicinity of which the venomous hairy spiders abound. (Kircher: De Arte Mag.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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