Spiders

[dq369]

Can spiders be familiars? Just wondering. I've been seeing a specific one lately around and it's weird it's like it's following me.

[Exilus]

My first wife, had a trantula for a familar, and yes as much as I hate the 8 legged beast they can be just like any pets.

[Witch1693]

lol. i hate all tiny beasts.

[WolfWitch]

When I first started the path, I asked the Lord and Lady for a sighn. My responce was a barn spider in my sliding glass door. I'd never seen a barn spider in my life (The fanged face on their butt was disconserting though.) It forced me to overcome my arachnaphobia and to learn a great deal in watching it live out it's simple little life. I saw more of them, one even building a web in a place so out in the open that it could not have been natural. I concider them my totem animal or spirit guide if you will.

This year I have had another move into my door. I also saw over 12 one night in a half block length of shrubs and scrub trees. (note they are not a social spider save for a few males jokying for a female. these where all definatly females as they were large.) They where along my path and building webs where spiders don't normially build. One had her web built between the tops of a bush and what i can only assume by the angle, the power line fifteen feet above. Out in the wide open. I took it as a good omen and I have been enjoying a streak of very good luck.

So yes. They can.

WW.

[cornflake.girl]

When I first started the path, I asked the Lord and Lady for a sighn. My responce was a barn spider in my sliding glass door. I'd never seen a barn spider in my life.

It forced me to overcome my arachnaphobia.

Hey I'm kind of off the subject now but i was just wondering if the fact that the spiders were a sign from the Lord and Lady that helped you overcome your fear or that your encounters with spiders were more frequent after that? I'm asking because I live in the country and I run into spiders almost everyday and I don't think I'll ever get over the phobia of them...

[WolfWitch]

My run in's became almost daily. I found them everywhere I went. Still do anymopre. I'm used to the little dears. I even plan on having a tattoo of a barn spider on one of my arms.

[cornflake.girl]

Little dears? A tattoo? Wow you must have gotten REALLY used to them lol.

[Grim Wraith]

of course they can, i have a little wolf spider friend that has housed itself in our school window. It had a little friend over once, but yes, they can be familiars.

[WolfWitch]

Little dears? A tattoo? Wow you must have gotten REALLY used to them lol.

Yes they have. And this from the mouth of a man who was Hysterically affraid of any spider no matter the size or shape. I mean serious hysterics.

I do believe that she has died, possibly yesterday. She is not in her cuddy whole and I respect this so I will simply watch over her sacks and try to protect them untill they hatch.

BB.
WW.

[Sercee]

I think any living creature can be a familiar. I don't know if you can actually have more than one, but my kitten, Tahl, and my snake, Annabelle, both seem to share the job

As for spiders - btw I was arachnophobic until this past summer - they are masterful artisans and architects. They can be stunningly beautiful but also dangerous. They react to humans like a neighbor does (at least the Jewel spider I had over my Irises and bleeding heart this year does!). They take care of your yard and home by removing many pests and they don't usually hurt anyone unless they've been attacked first.

Why shouldn't they make good familiars? Or at least allies!

[MorningFate]

To tell the truth, and I know that this is off of the subject, I have never read the post because of the name. I have a huge phobia of spiders, and still don't like them. I respect them, and don't kill them or harm them because they are living creatures too, and if I were one of them I wouldn't want to get squashed, but I do freak out anytime one of them get near me. But my snake, whom I loved very much, we had to kill her. I guess in a way she was my familiar.

[Sobek]

"I respect them, and don't kill them or harm them because they are living creatures too, and if I were one of them I wouldn't want to get squashed, but I do freak out anytime one of them get near me"

if they come near me i kill them but if they dont die the first time i run the other way, i'm a big woman when it comes to spiders. i dont mind them so long as i dont see them

[MorningFate]

I just have my uncle or someone else come in the room and take them to a different room. I used to kill them, then I imagined myself in their "shoes," in a matter of speaking. lol.

[Sobek]

i would have someone come and take it, but the only other person is my mum who is just as scared of them as i am. so thats a no go. i choose the lesser of two evils, quick and painless, or slow poison.

[Sercee]

I was about to say something about 'slow poison', but then I noticed you're from Australia where spiders actually *are* dangerous sometimes. Around here there are only 2 species of spider that could potentially kill and they are very rare (hobo and black widow). There are a few others, such as the wolf spider, that can necrotize a small area of your flesh if it bites but the wound usually heals pretty good and the pain only lasts a day or three.

In Australia they are actually deadly from what I understand.