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There is a Russian (Eastern European? Slavic?) superstition against kill spiders. You can kill insects all day, but you don’t kill spiders. You just leave them be.

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I'm Russian and I don't remember anything like that, so even if it is Russian it's fairly obscure

Thanks I’ve been wondering.

Yes, killing spiders is a bad omen in Lithuania. Usually they're simply thrown out. Not sure how many people does this nowadays but it stuck with me.

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