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Spider Queen. The Spider Queen is one of the characters in the anonymously written Chinese novel Xi-yóu-jì, a.k.a. Journey to the West. In 1927 she appeared in the film Pan Si Dong, directed by Dan Duyu.

Sun Wùkong, the Monkey King, is traveling to the west with his companions to retrieve various sutras, but near the end of their trip they encounter the demonic Spider Queen, who rules other spider demons and uses her martial arts and her ability to spin webs from her navel to try to foil Sun Wùkong.

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