Australian spiders are amazingly deadly!

!!!! can even cause burns and fractures !!!!

Sydney (Reuters) reports how spiders led their victims to buttock burns and leg fractures, of course with a little help from the victims themselves.

In the first case, a nude man decided to kill a spider by fire and succeeded in attracting some flames to himself. In the second case, a man tried to kick a spider, and broke his leg in two places instead.

Sounds suspiciously like black magic - especially as it is unclear whether either spider suffered any injury at all.

Full text of the news story here.