How true can this be ? Or is it just Non-sense?

LOL

If it could be proved that, like cockroaches, many other spiders fled when you approached, leaving Clem Cadiddle-Spider for you to kill, then there would seem to be something to the contention.

However...no, I don't buy it.

should not kill spiders period in my book [usher]

I mean maybe if you kill enough spiders. And your neighbor's spiders. And so on

There are a lot of spiders