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All week we're talking with brothers Jacob and Eddie about the animals they interact with when they're outside.
We've talked about snakes, bugs, turtles, and fish. During our last episode this week, we'll explore... spiders!
As long as 600 years ago, in a certain area of Italy, there was a disease that people thought was caused by the bite of a tarantula.
To cure it, the sick person had to dance in a frenzy in order to work out the venom. People would clap around the dancer in a circle shouting: "Faster! Pick up those feet!
The dance is called a "tarantella" — like tarantula — but we don't do that anymore for medicine.
What do you think spider music could sound like?
Here's a traditional tarantella dance and music performed by Richard Hayman and The Manhattan Pops.
"Tarantella"
More spider music
If you want to hear more music about spiders, try "Spider Knows his Craft" from “Tales of the Magic Tree” by Pavel Lyubomudrov
This week's "Mystery Melody"
This week's Mystery Melody was "The Itsy Bitsy Spider." We heard from Paloma, Shelagh, Delaney, Vernon, Spencer from Kalkaska and Julian from Gaylord. Congratulations to this week's Golden Ears who guessed the clip correctly!
And, a huge thanks goes to Kodak Quartet for recording this week's mystery melody for us!
Thanks to this week's co-hosts, Jacob and Eddie for sharing their time and cool stories. Additional production help came from Amanda Sewell and Gracie Westergaard. Scott Clemens is our digital content producer.
