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As the Lincoln mother drove down one of the city’s main thoroughfares, a new sculpture outside the Lincoln Children’s Zoo appeared to her as a set of hands signaling the devil’s horns.

Red and black like the devil. And fingers bent to make the devil’s horns.

Surely that doesn’t belong around children, she thought. Some other, more whimsical sculpture could be placed at the zoo.

Only thing is, the sculpture isn’t a hand signal evoking the devil, but rather Spider-Man’s hands unleashing strands of silk.

But that’s not what the Lincoln mother saw during her frequent drive, so in an email to the city, she asked that the sculpture be moved.

“This is anti-Christen (sic), and demonic, and completely inappropriate and offensive to place in front of the Children Zoo and Gardens where couples are married,” she wrote in an email. “Remove it please. Put it (in) a empty ditch somewhere … (Devil worship) is a Hate Crime against the church.”

The woman’s request has gone viral, and the woman, reached by phone Thursday night, said the whole thing is largely a misunderstanding.