As with many animals that inspire fear, there are many myths about spiders. Are daddy-longlegs extremely venomous to humans, but their jaws are too small to bite us? Does the average person swallow 4 live spiders per year at night while they sleep? Dismiss these absurdities and others by consulting this great site from the Burke Museum in Seattle that deals accurately with many spider myths . . .

 http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/index.html