During the Christmas season in Eastern Europe, especially in Ukraine, it’s common to see spiders and spider webs dangling from Christmas trees. They could be gold, silver, or a whole range of ...

Make a Christmas spider ornament and surprise your guests with a crafty piece of folklore. It’s simple, fun, and perfect for ...

“The Ukrainian “pavuchky,” or spider, ... When we decorate our trees with tinsel, it’s been said that we are recreating the glittering, sparkling webs of the Christmas spider.

Today, spider web ornaments remain a part of Ukrainian Christmas. Families handcraft them with various materials and colours, adding them to their trees alongside traditional baubles and lights.

Spiders on Christmas trees — usually in the form of ornaments — are a Ukrainian tradition that dates back to the late 1800s or early 1900s, according to Lubow Wolynetz, folk art curator at New ...

The Christmas spider story may not directly address these practical benefits, but it still promotes a refreshingly tolerant view of house spiders. And it also highlights another, more abstract ...

Christmas spider tales are many, but all center on good fortune. Liliya Krueger/Getty Last year I found a giant, and I mean absolutely gargantuan, spider in my laundry the day after we brought our ...