User blog comment:Archeryfreak17/I'm scared/@comment-77.96.171.100-20111209154232/@comment-3146930-20111209160855

Who's children are scared of who? If you mean why are children of Athena scared of spiders, it is because Athena was the one that destroyed Arachne's tapestry, causing her to kill herself. The anger of the parent was passed down to the children and so on. While spider's really cant do much against Athena, they can mess with her children