Sorry Mark, the white-tailed spider myth has been bopped on the head.

Golden staph from treatment rooms has been nominated as that baddy.

On my trip to the USA in '03, we were told in Tucson about a spider called the

Brown Solitary, which has the same supposed effect of creeping necrosis.

Australia's red-back spider is probably a hitch-hiker picked up by the colony fleets

in South Africa. It is largely unknown in the deep bush.

It has no dream-time name and story.

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