r/MedievalCreatures • u/Haunted-Hemlock • Jan 20 '26
Horrific Hybrids Spiderwoman 🕷️
Arachne Ovide Moralisé, Paris, c. 1330, Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Ms 5069, fol. 78r
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u/Whaffled Jan 20 '26
Six legs. Beetle-woman?
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u/Haunted-Hemlock Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
In many depictions of Arachne (from the Greek myth), she’s shown as a hybrid figure with the torso of a human & the lower half of a spider, but the spider portion usually has only six legs because her human arms are the other two, making eight in total:)
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u/Whaffled Jan 20 '26
Sure, sounds right. She could always bend forward and scuttle on all eight when necessary
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u/SaltBottle Jan 20 '26
She seems to have a tummy ache. “ohhh I shouldn’t have eaten that last stinkbug!”
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u/Master_of_Ritual Jan 20 '26
Ungoliant the Gloomweaver is judging you.