Comments on: 8th December, The Spider & The Cave https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/08/8th-december-the-spider-the-cave/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 02 Jul 2023 23:04:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: A. Kirby https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/08/8th-december-the-spider-the-cave/#comment-1514021 Sun, 02 Jul 2023 23:04:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=50308#comment-1514021 This is referenced briefly in Umineko no Naku Koro ni, and if you think about it, it is indeed a closed room mystery!

]]> By: John Parham https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/08/8th-december-the-spider-the-cave/#comment-37570 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:16:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=50308#comment-37570 There is a chapter, or Sura, in the Quran called ‘The Spider’ Sura 29, though it doesn’t contain this story, which is however well known to Islam. It concerns the Prophet Muhammed and his friend Abu Bakr hiding in a cave from assassins, who are searching for them between Mecca and Medina. They are not discovered because miraculously the entrance to the cave where they take refuge has been covered with a spider’s web – which puts their would-be killers off the scent.

Interesting that it should also be a tale from Poland concerning the Magi and King Herod – though also not found in any scriptures.

Such old stories have a wonderful universality and ability to transcend times and cultures.

]]> By: Sarah https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/08/8th-december-the-spider-the-cave/#comment-32658 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:16:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=50308#comment-32658 Love this, one year our school nativity focused on this story, I played a spider!

]]> By: Alena https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/08/8th-december-the-spider-the-cave/#comment-32376 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:19:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=50308#comment-32376 I also am enjoying the advent calendar, and I am learning! Thanks so much!

]]> By: andrea https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/08/8th-december-the-spider-the-cave/#comment-32373 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:11:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=50308#comment-32373 I look forward each day to these illustrations (which all of a sudden look really Polish) and the stories. Thank you, Paul.

]]> By: jeannette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/08/8th-december-the-spider-the-cave/#comment-32368 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:00:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=50308#comment-32368 such a beautiful story. perhaps next christmas you will do us a polish advent.
this one may have to be recycled though. it is fab.

]]> By: Roger Stowell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/08/8th-december-the-spider-the-cave/#comment-32355 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:31:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=50308#comment-32355 I thought you said that they stopped at Harrod’s palace on the way to Bethlehem – quite apposite really.

]]> By: Sarah Lily https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/08/8th-december-the-spider-the-cave/#comment-32354 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:24:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=50308#comment-32354 Beautiful story and drawing. True there is reference to that in the Quran and I believe that spiders are considered scared in Islam, if I am not mistaken. If cave is on outskirts of Cairo perhaps Spider should weave its web nowadays as well – to protect those who want a modern Egypt!!

]]> By: Ree https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/08/8th-december-the-spider-the-cave/#comment-32353 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:19:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=50308#comment-32353 A great tale…Would make a charming animation…

]]> By: Paul Bommer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/08/8th-december-the-spider-the-cave/#comment-32337 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:57:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=50308#comment-32337 Dziękujemy Margaret!

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