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Die Schwarze Spinne is a religious allegory about morals and
religious living in the mid-nineteenth century, written by Jeremias
Gotthelf. This work is an interlinear translation of Gotthelf's Die
Schwarze Spinne with introductions to both the author and the work
itself. In a small Swiss community, a baptism is the backdrop for a
village elder to tell the story of his family and their life and
death struggle with the devil himself. The elder relates the story
of a knight and his ill treatment of the farmers of the area. The
knight's inhuman demands upon the peasants bring about unforeseen
consequences, which lead to the decimation of the village and,
ultimately, the knight's own death. The plague released through a
pact with the devil, the black spider, haunts the village for
hundreds of years and must be fought with religious piety, courage,
and devotion to traditional values. It is when one forgets God and
his commandments that the black spider is at its most deadly. A
true tale of morality written by a pastor in 1842, The Black Spider
serves as a warning to those who, according to Gotthelf, go against
the will of God.
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It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a
christening is being celebrated at a lovely old farmhouse. One of
the guests notes an anomaly in the fabric of the venerable edifice:
a blackened post that has been carefully built into a trim new
window frame. Thereby hangs a tale, one that, as the wise old
grandfather who has lived all his life in the house proceeds to
tell it, takes one chilling turn after another, while his audience
listens in appalled silence. Featuring a cruelly overbearing lord
of the manor and the oppressed villagers who must render him
service, an irreverent young woman who will stop at nothing, a
mysterious stranger with a red beard and a green hat, and, last but
not least, the black spider, the tale is as riveting and appalling
today as when Jeremias Gotthelf set it down more than a hundred
years ago. The Black Spider can be seen as a parable of evil in the
heart or of evil at large in society (Thomas Mann saw it as
foretelling the advent of Nazism), or as a vision, anticipating H.
P. Lovecraft, of cosmic horror. There's no question, in any case,
that it is unforgettably creepy.
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