Some interesting material gathered during background research on black widow spiders, particularly the way their bites have been treated historically:

From Emil Bogen’s 1926 article on Arachnidism for the Archives of Internal Medicine

La Taranta - A documentary based on anthropologist and historian of religion Ernesto de Martino’s study of tarantism, wherein people bitten by spiders are ritually treated by way of music and spontaneous dancing.