When the baby black widow spiders hatched, they bit her scalp and she died. The barber carried on and eventually the dreadlocked individual tired of the clumsy service, left the premises with the haircut unfinished. He was found at home some time later, dead, from multiple spider-bites to the skull, from a nest of spiders living in his hair. Early versions of this legend often involved a high school girl who passed out in class or was sent to the hospital when a teacher noticed blood running down her neck. In a few variations the victim is said to have actually survived the ordeal.
Later versions ascribe the same fault to men.
One of her husband's other wives had secreted a scorpion in the girl's wedding wig.