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Southern Italy’s centuries-long dancing mania

How the symptom of a terrifying sickness became a lively folk dance in southern Italy.

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Finding solidarity in arachnophobia

Arachnophobia is very different from just disliking spiders. Izzie Price shares the reality of having the phobia, and explores its likely origins.

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Little feet on Pett Level Beach

Poet and author Penny Pepper has vivid memories of childhood beach trips when her father was still alive, enthusiastically encouraging her curiosity and love of nature.

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  • People dancing the tarantella and playing music as an antidote to a tarantula bite. Etching.
  • People dancing the tarantella and playing music as an antidote to a tarantula bite. Etching.
  • Anatomy, medicine and botany; top to bottom, arteries of the stomach, sternum, tarantula, scorpion; bottom right, sassafras. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • De praxi medica ad priscam observandi rationem revocanda, libri duo. Accedunt dissertationes novae. I. De anatome, morsu, et effectibus tarantulae ... II. De usu et abusu vesicantium. III. Experimenta varia anatomico-infusoria. IV. De circulatione sanguinis in rana. V. Historia morbi, et sectionis cadaveris Marcelli Malpighii. VI. Appendix de apoplexiis. Fere epidemicis ... / [Giorgio Baglivi].
  • Ivory ornamental spider silk (Poecilotheria subfusca)
  • A natural history of spiders. And other curious insects / illustrated with fifty three copper plates, engraved by the best hands, by Eleazar Albin.
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