Heill Melissa,
In her book “Loki in Scandinavian Mythology,” Anna Birgitta Rooth makes the case for the connection between Loki and the Spider, a common trickster figure in some Native American Indian lore. Apart from this I am not aware of "spiders" within the context of the Northern Myths.

Anna Birgitta Rooth died on June 5, 2000. With her passing the world lost an important folklorist and a generous human being who had much success but also met with many hardships.

Born in 1919 into a well-to-do family in the small southern Swedish town of Ängelholm, Anna Birgitta Rooth chose nearby Lund to pursue her university studies. At Lund she became a student of Carl Wilhelm von Sydow and, in 1951, she defended her Ph.D. dissertation under his direction. In 1964, she was appointed research scholar (forskardocent) at Lund University and in 1973 she succeeded Dag Strömbäck as full professor at Uppsala University. But while, during his tenure, the position was specified as one in “Nordic and Comparative Folklife Research, Particularly Folkloristics”, it was named a position in “Ethnology” only, when Anna Birgitta Rooth took over. The word “folkloristics” had been deleted. Indeed, in a formal sense, a folkloristic specialization had ceased to exist in Sweden in 1972, when Folklife Research and Folkloristics were united into one field, Ethnology. Although this unification eventually had significant consequences for folklore study in Sweden, a folkloristic specialization did in fact continue, at least until 1984, when Anna Birgitta Rooth retired from her position at Uppsala University.

See: www.folklorefellows.fi/netw/f...th.html

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Rig

Coming from a German-American family, I was always of the understanding that a spider in the house brings good luck and should not be killed.