Third ; Research question-Life and Death (and Everything in Between) Last Kiss of the Tarantula For (s)he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.� (Oscar Wilde) My surname is shared with a place, a spider, a dance and a Hollywood director that almost killed his muse in a car while shooting a trilogy. My VJ name was VJ Tarantula, as my surname is Taranto. It is also a gulf in southern Italy where the Tarantella is originated. The Tarantella (the dance of the spider) was traced back to the 14th and 15th century where the outbreak of the 'tantaism' epidemic started in the region of Taranto and slowly spreaded to other parts of Italy. "According to legend, once bitten by a tarantula, the victim, referred to as the tarantata — who was almost always a woman of lower status — would fall into a fit in which she was plagued by heightened excitability and restlessness. Eventually, she would succumb to the condition and die. The only cure, it seemed, was to engage in the frenzied dancing ritual of the Tarantella. Townspeople would surround the tarantata while musicians would play instruments such as mandolins, guitars, and tambourines in different tempos in search of the correct healing rhythm. Each varied beat would affect the tarantata, leading her to move in erratic ways in line with the tempo. Once 30.
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