If spiders and other 6+ legged animals did not exist, would humans have been creative enough to make them up in fiction?
considering that most fictional and mythological monsters are just variations and hybrids of existing animals.
Unicorns are just horses with horns, dragons are just lizards with bat wings, minotaurs are just humans with bull heads, etc.
I think humans are less creative than they like to give themselves credit for, so I doubt they could have come up with a spider.
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