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Story III. - Theseus | Charles Kingsley | |
Part II - How Theseus Slew The Devourers Of Men |
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'And who art thou, fair fly, who hast walked into the spider's web?' But Theseus walked on steadily, and made no answer; but he thought, 'Is this some robber? and has an adventure come already to me?' But the strange man laughed louder than ever, and said - 'Bold fly, know you not that these glens are the web from which no fly ever finds his way out again, and this down the spider's house, and I the spider who sucks the flies? Come hither, and let me feast upon you; for it is of no use to run away, so cunning a web has my father Hephaistos spread for me when he made these clefts in the mountains, through which no man finds his way home.' But Theseus came on steadily, and asked - 'And what is your name among men, bold spider? and where are your spider's fangs?' Then the strange man laughed again - 'My name is Periphetes, the son of Hephaistos and Anticleia the mountain nymph. But men call me Corynetes the club-bearer; and here is my spider's fang.' And he lifted from off the stones at his side a mighty club of bronze. |
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