cobweb
Cobwebs , even cobwebs or spider webs known, remains of are cobwebs and occasionally those of the fantasies of other animals.
Cobwebs are often found uncomfortable, especially in the household, and are therefore usually removed quickly. The spider's web itself is sometimes still given a use value - on the one hand as an aesthetic work of art, on the other hand as a natural fly trap - and it is therefore not immediately removed everywhere in the household. If the spider web is torn, perforated or hung for a long time due to external influences and only functions as a dust catcher, it is referred to as cobwebs and experiences a change in meaning.
Cobwebs can only arise where spiders had the opportunity to spin a web and it could stay in place for a mostly longer period of time (weeks or years). This longer residence time is often associated with a longer absence from cleaning activities, for example because the areas are difficult to access, are seldom used or not taken care of when cleaning.
This means that cobwebs in film, especially in horror and fantasy, are often used props to prove abandonment over a longer period of time. The Halloween trend of recent years has meanwhile also led to an offer for artificial cobwebs, which are also used by the Gothic scene.
They found more classic application in the 18th and 19th centuries in cobweb pictures , where they served as the material basis for paintings.
Since ancient times, the cobweb (Latin tela araneae ) has also been used medicinally as a pad or plaster component for wounds and against (the "three-day") intermittent fever tertiana .
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- ^ Heinrich Ebel: The 'Herbarius communis' of Hermannus de Sancto Portu and the pharmacopoeia of Claus von Metry: Text transcriptions from the Codices Bibl. Acad. Ms. 674, Erlangen, and Pal. Germ. 215, Heidelberg. Two contributions to the knowledge of the essence of medieval folk botany. (Mathematical and natural science dissertation, Berlin 1939) Würzburg 1940 (= texts and studies on the history of natural sciences. , Volume 1), p. 34.
- ↑ Des Pedanios Dioskurides from Anazarbos Medicines Theory in five books. Translated and provided with explanations by Julius Berendes . Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1902 ( full text ; digitized digitized version ); Reprints: Sendet, Wiesbaden 1970; Sänd, Schaan 1983; Sendet, Vaduz 1987; Sendet, Vaduz 2005; P. 172 f.
- ↑ Avicenna : Liber canonis. (based on the translation by Gerhard von Cremona) Venice (Petrus de Paginis) 1507; Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1964; Sheet 94.