I thought I'd start today with a creature from the folklore of my own country. In Clare, in the west of Ireland, it was formerly believed - and possibly still is - that there was a terrible and dangerous arachnid called the Blood-sucking Spider. This creature was the size of a piglet and would arrive in the night to attack children. Clare, in days agone, must have been an uneasy place for the arachnophobe. I have no reports, however, of any actual sightings.
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