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Lycosa Carnivora The Spider Woman (1944)
Gale Sondergaard's sneaky weapon in The Spider Woman is the lycosa carnivora: a giant spider whose bite is so painful that its victim commits suicide. It's a murder weapon where the murder is unnecessary - and she would have gotten away with it too, if not for that meddling Sherlock Holmes. Unfortunately, it's bollocks worthy of Conan Doyle himself: there's no such spider, and the lycosa species is harmless to humans. You might get a bit of swelling and an itch. See also Dr. No and the Hammer version of The Hound Of The Baskervilles.
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