> My twelve-year-old daughter wouldn't sleep in her > bed because she saw a spider and was told by her > teacher that we eat spiders when we sleep. (I asked > her the name of that teacher, so we could "chat", but > she declined for fear of embarrassment). Well, my wife has been known to spy eaters in the kitchen while they sleep... While the sleep part is a new twist, the whole eating spider thing has been debunked: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/email/2002Feb.html http://www.snopes2.com/science/stats/spiders.htm More about spider myths: http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/spiders/index.htm?terms=spiders * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *