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"The legend is that pizzica was performed by itinerant musicians to help peasant women recover from a tarantula's bite," said Edoardo Winspeare, whose 1995 film Pizzicata helped bring the music's ritualistic, dervish-like rhythm and beseeching vocals to a new audience.

Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat 2011

One of the oldest documents on the subject of tarantism, Ferdinando Ponzetti's Sertum Papale De Venensis (1362), had suggested that the victims of shade-dwelling spiders were hostages to the music of the tarantula's bite, to its 'cantum tempore'.

Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives 2006

The symptoms of the tarantula's bite were extremely varied.

Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives 2006

Though he is a master prose stylist -- he speaks of a tarantula's "" measured octave tread '' and a villain's eyes "" like lead slag poured into borings to seal away something virulent or predacious '' -- McCarthy is best appreciated for his utter unpredictability.

Brightening Western Star 2008

Embolus, also known as the palpal bulb, of the tarantula Chilobrachys fimbriatus the shiny red dot near the tarantula's foot pad -- look at the leg on the left.

Give it to me, baby Douglas Hoffman 2005

Embolus, also known as the palpal bulb, of the tarantula Chilobrachys fimbriatus the shiny red dot near the tarantula's foot pad -- look at the leg on the left.

Archive 2005-05-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005

God, what a tarantula's nest Broadfoot had plunged me into!

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

God, what a tarantula's nest Broadfoot had plunged me into!

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

It would be highly inadvisable to snatch a kiss from a copperhead or to stroke a tarantula's fur the wrong way.

The Poison Bugaboo 1910

In some subtle manner she understood, for she jerked herself out of her anger, and fell silent, regarding him with a glance as brilliantly, deadly bright as a tarantula's.

A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905