Stories
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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.
Catalogue
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Estudio médico del veneno de la tarántula : según el método de Hahnemann precedido de un resúmen histórico del tarantulismo y tarantismo, y seguido de algunas indicaciones terapéuticas y notas clínicas / por José Nuñez.
Nuñez, José, 1805-1879.Date: 1864- Books
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Tarantismo observado en España, con que se prueba el de la pulla, dudado de algunos, y tratado de otros de fabuloso. Y memorias para escribir la historia del insecto llamado tarántula, efectos de su veneno en el cuerpo humano, y curacion por la música con el modo de obrar de esta, y su aplicacion como remedio á varias enfermedades / [Francisco Xavier Cid].
Cid, Francisco Javier.Date: 1787- Pictures
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Anatomy, medicine and botany; top to bottom, arteries of the stomach, sternum, tarantula, scorpion; bottom right, sassafras. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
Date: [between 1834 and 1837]Reference: 577956i- Books
Nothing works like Benecol to actually reduce cholesterol / Benecol Information Service ; designed and produced by Tarantula Communication Solutions.
Date: [2000?]- Pictures
People dancing the tarantella and playing music as an antidote to a tarantula bite. Etching.
Reference: 18611i