Here in our countr, betting is one of the common forms in gambling and that include spider fight.betting. Spiders could be easily spotted at night in the mountain areas where they will going to make their spider web to catch its prey.
I did experience this and it is really great.
Going to mountainsides finding a good spider to fight with my friend's spider. I don't go to mountainsides at nights since it is dangerous in our place but we can go early in the morning like 5 or 6 then we can sell them or let them fight.
Now, since spider do fights when meet, gamblers take this chance for.betting. Do you have experience on spider fight betting?
I have no experience with direct betting since at that time when you lose, you lose the spider. Sometimes we have a bet like the first to run will have the spider.
Note: Not all spider's fight for it will depend on its classifications and some are too poisonous if got bitten will result in death. These spiders are the common spiders that are not poisonous.
That kind of spiders is not that popular to us so when we are really having a good time, we can get any spiders that we can get on our "hunt". Some are so huge that we even doubt that we can use that to fight or will other children will fight that.
I searched it on google and found this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNsK1TkH_5ASkip the firsts part and go to 7:30. Filipinos had been doing spider fight for generations and this is part of their culture. They do have this medicine kit turned into spider's room where they put all their warrior spiders. Terrifying but these guys are letting the spiders crawl their fingers. Bills right on the table are their bets.
We usually put the caught spider in a small matchboxes and inside of it we placed the stick to divide it to 4 spaces, almost filipino who living near fields are not afraid of spider (This is type of spider we hunt called neoscona punctigera) and even me I put the spiders it to my hands.
Speaking of that small matchbox I remember my youngest brother who was so angry because his spider was eaten by the ants and all was dead dead, lol.
Spiders fight to bet is very common here in the Philippines which is a majority of them was in a village or those in rural areas which is easy to find spiders. This kind of betting gambling is clearly against the right of animals or even insects but still, they have the right to stay longer and very useful to our ecosystem and one of that help to minimize of multiplying mosquitos and flying insects.
Google credit This spider is what we are avoiding since it has these long legs making other children at a disadvantage. We usually call it "ekis" or "x", I know some Filipino guy will understand me here. That "ekis" here is fighting a "tigre" or tiger in English.