Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet
Sat on her tuffet
Eating her curds and whey
There came a big spider
And sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.

This is probably the best known little poem about spiders. Miss Patience Mouffet was the daughter of the Reverend Thomas Mouffet (1552 – 1604) who thought spiders were beautiful and had medicinal properties.

If you wish to live and thrive,
Let the spider run alive.
Kill a spider and bad luck yours will be,
Until of flies you’ve swatted fifty-three.