A Canadian fairy tale, collected from oral sources by Cyrus Macmillan, that tells the origin of the spider as we know him today.
The Spider Man feels overworked and underappreciated by the Star-people in the sky-country, whom he serves by weaving webs for them to go back and forth from the earth to do their good deeds. He conceives a scheme to retire to the earth to live forever a life of leisure, but his plans go awry.
