Trickster turn passed it on to Odysseus. In Slavic folktales, the trickster and the culture hero are often combined. Frequently the trickster figure exhibits gender and form variability. In Norse mythology the mischief-maker is Loki, who is also a shape shifter. Loki also exhibits gender variability, in one case even becoming pregnant. He becomes a mare who later gives birth to Odin's eight-legged horse Sleipnir. British scholar Evan Brown suggested that Jacob in the Bible has many of the characteristics of the trickster:The tricks Jacob plays on his twin brother Esau, his father Isaac and his father-in-law Laban are immoral by
Eight Legged Freaks "Larger Than Life", which also handled a spider-fighting storyline. The film was originally titled "Arac Attack" (under which it was released in some parts of Europe and other countries around the world) but the similarity to "Iraq Attack" made the title seem inappropriate so near the start of the Iraq War. The title "Eight Legged Freaks" is a line that Arquette ad-libbed in the movie: "Get back, you eight-legged freaks!" A video game adaptation titled "Eight Legged Freaks: Let the Squashing Begin" was also released in 2002 for PC and Mac and could be downloaded from the official website, which