The Superstitions on Spiders:

So far there have been many superstitions on spiders. And so far, not many of them have been proved true. Such as the one that says if you step on a bug then you will get darker. I am living proof that is a lie! I am a dark shade of brown and yet, i have only killed maybe a few spiders in my life. 

Another one is that spiders are omens of good luck, and the larger the spider the bigger the reward(excluding tarantulas of course). I have come across many spiders in my fifteen years and I have never gotten any of these so called “rewards”, so this is total bogus.

When spiders spin their webs ‘fore noon, Sunny weather’s coming soon. A pretty verse, but come on. I have seen spiders with my own eyes spinning a web “‘fore noon” and it rained that whole entire week. Now I may not have the best vision ever but I know what I saw, and what i saw was a spider spinning her web, before noon. Another superstition proved wrong. Shocker!

If a spider hangs over your head, you will get a letter. I totally wish I could say that this one is true, because then I would have gotten many letters when I was younger, but, sadly, this is also just a superstition. If a spider really does hang over your head, there are only two good things to do: one is to kill it, and the other is to run away screaming like a little girl and have someone else kill it for you. Either way, its gonna end up dead.

If a spider builds its web across your door, you can expect company. Ok, seriously? If I walked up to someone’s door and they had a spider web across it, I would turn around, get in my car, and drive away because seriously, no one wants to go into a person’s house if they have a gigantic spider web across their door! So this one would probably drive people away, instead of bringing them in. Unless of course you are a very good home keeper or a very superstitious person and check your doorway every day at before noon.

If you kill a spider, bad luck yours will be, Until flies you’ve swatted fifty-three. Yet another pretty verse, but also yet another load of crap. I have killed some spiders before in my life, and I most definitely have NOT killed more than ten flies if I’m being generous with myself. I do not have bad luck, my luck is actually pretty dang good, if you know what I mean. If you are superstitious, all I have to say is good luck finding that many flies to kill!

Like I said earlier, there are many spider superstitions, and many of them are not true. I have just touched the tip of the iceberg when it comes to spider superstitions. Hopefully I have shed some light on the subject, and hopefully I have turned you away from all of these silly superstitions and hopefully you will just take my word on it that all of the spider superstitions out there are just a load of crap.