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The city's name is the origin of the common name "tarantula", originating from the terms tarantella, tarantism and tarantula — although no spider species of the family Theraphosidae inhabit the area.[citation needed] In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, residents of Taranto who believed they had been bitten by the large local Wolf Spider, Lycosa tarentula, would claim to fall ill with tarantism, a disease marked by melancholy and, in its most extreme form, bouts of aggresive, manic behavior. One cure was believed to be performing a long vigorous dance like a jig, in order to sweat the venom out of their pores — even though the wolf spider's venom is not fatal to humans. The frenetic dance is believed to be an early origin of the Tarantella dance.[3]