This little creepy-crawly with four pairs of very long legs is a spider I found in my garage yesterday. Spiders produce a highly resistant silk thread with which they spin their webs. Spiders show a wide range of behaviours, that is why they have become common symbols in art and mythology associated to patience, cruelty and creative powers.
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As they are so similar, we use the word araña to refer to ceiling lamps with several arms, like the one we can see in this Galician church, San Xulián de Luaños (Brión), and in many other old churches.
Las arañas aparecen en muchos refranes y proverbios en español. Os ofrecemos algunos:
Spiders are present in many sayings and proverbs in Spanish. We are giving you some here:
"Las leyes son semejantes a las telas de araña: detienen a lo débil y ligero y son deshechas por lo fuerte y poderoso".
"Araña muerta, visita cierta".
"Seeing a dead spider / killing a spider means someone is visiting you soon"
"Con maña, caza a la mosca la araña".
"It is skill that allows spiders to catch flies."
También un viejo chiste juega con los significados de esta palabra:
"-¿Qué animal es dos veces animal?
- El gato, porque es gato y araña".
En este caso, el chiste se basa en dos significados de la palabra araña: el animal, y la tercera persona de singular del verbo arañar.
Y os dejamos con un último sabio proverbio:
"Buen amigo es el gato cuando no araña"...
And before we leave you today, one more wise Spanish saying:
"Cats are good friends, as long as they don't scratch you."
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