Why are people scared of spiders?

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It's a cultural thing.
I think spiders had some occult meaning in pagan times, and Christianity did not really dealt with this superstition. I know it's a cultural thing because ppl from some other cultures eat 'em.
It's also the spiders' looks, with it's limbs, and the body in the core..
beseen that, I'm not fond of spiders either :nervous:

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KennyR wrote:
But why are they more alien to us than a fish or a bird?

well, you should know that really,
a spider has an external skeleton and birds and fish have internal skeletons.
This means the spiders differs to us extremely because of difference on a very core level of evolution. Like octopi and worms or insects.

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T_Bone wrote:
8 legs = EVIL!

2 legs also == EVIL! (considering the amount of deaths inflicted)