The Seneca Indians had a myth about a giant spider called Dijien. Dijien was the size of a human and therefore alarming. He was difficult to kill, for his heart was buried underground. He seems at length to have been slain by Othegwenhda, who stabbed the heart with the branch of a tree.
This kind of story turns up in various places and mythologists call it the Myth of the External Soul.
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