September is a dark shift. The Corn Moon later this month will happen and so will the Autumn Equinox. Days will grow darker as nights get longer. Chills will hang by a thread in the air and crawling with dread. LOOK OUT FOR SPIDERS!
Big spiders will appear indoors. Not just to keep warm and dry but to find eight-legged friendships! Spiders are keen to search for each other during their mating season. While the majority of spiders are not social animals, they tend to feel lonely in the Autumn and go dating out on the web. Male spiders have to be really clever and careful when approaching female spiders, who are much more aggressive. Female spiders are tough and sassy by nature. They have to be, as it's a defence mechanism to defend their young against predators.
If you want to hear spooky spiders stories, I will share these creepy legends.
Ghost Spiders of the Old Vicarage, which is a British folklore legend: A resident of an old vicarage during Victorian times collected arachnids. Some of these in his collection were tropical spiders and tarantulas. The house is a ruin today but visitors have experienced the sensation of invisible cobwebs, but that isn't the shocking part. Ghost hunters have seen eerie shadow spiders the size of dinner plates, walking across the walls and vanishing. Late night guests heard the sounds of scurrying legs running through the floorboards.
The Jorogumo or The Binding Bride of Japanese folklore: When a certain spider, the Golden Silk Orb Weaver, becomes 400 years old, it's earned supernatural powers. It shape-shifts into a very beautiful woman playing a musical instrument (the lute) in quiet solitary places including waterfalls. Often men are victims lured in by her enchanting beauty. It's a trap though. Drawn in like spider and the fly. Once she's got them, she transforms back into a spider and kills them.
The Ghost Web of Borley Rectory: There was once a haunted house that became infamous until it got burned down in 1939. Of Borley in Essex, this huge house once had a plethora of ghosts, including an army of ghost spiders! Found in the cold dark cellar, these phantom spiders appeared when someone shone a light in the dark. Believed to be dense negative energy taking form of spiders. The spiders spun dark shadowy webs, and also turned the atmosphere cold. People even felt as if many spiders crawled all over them. Eek!
Shadow Girl
