Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-10502460-20180901022714/@comment-35711173-20180904011017

HopelessNightOwl,

The problem with deciding what to use to represent evil incarnate or even evil manifested is the culture of the reader.

Spiders aren't evil in many cultures.

https://www.countryliving.com/life/g5065/christmas-spider-tradition/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_Grandmother

That doesn't make it a bad or an invalid choice to use. There's always a chance someone else will think "Christmas spider, how cute" instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_spiders

When I think of manifestations of evil and death, I think of ravens circling overhead. They manifest evil death. (Not the death of an old man surrounded by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but the death of a dying sinner.) That is cultural for me.