Blair. Nebuchadnezzar sets forth various ordeals for Ben Sira, who responds with 22 stories. If the infant is male, I have dominion over him for eight days after his birth, and if female, for twenty days.". Isaac Luria perished during an outbreak of plague in the year 1572, when he was only 38 years old. Who Are You, Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof? For other uses, see, The spirit in the tree in the Gilgamesh cycle, The bird-footed woman in the Burney Relief, Alsatian Krasmesser (16th to 20th century), In Western esotericism and modern occultism, , -, - ; - , . (CD-ROM). Lilith appears in historiolas (incantations incorporating a short mythic story) in various concepts and localities[4] that give partial descriptions of her. If not, she must permit one hundred of her children to die every day." He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her . Four guests protect Smamit from the demon; the names of three of them are Soney, Sosoney and Senigly. Despite the threat from the three angels that if she didn't return to Adam one hundred of her sons would die every day, she refused, claiming that she was created expressly to harm newborn infants. Smamit escapes the demon and flees to an isolated mountain where she builds a fortified home. The main difference here relates to the type of pestilence which was spreading across the country, with the text mentioning an outbreak of cholera morbus ( ) and expressing the hope that no harm will befall us, nor will a plague draw near to our tent. An amulet with the names of the angels, and Adam and Eve, excluding Lilith. Apples grow, too, in my garden. Tablet XII is not part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, but is a later Assyrian Akkadian translation of the latter part of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Adam's wife, his first. The image here is taken from a later printing of the book which includes various commentaries on the writings of Vital and Luria, but the amulet, or similar versions of it, appear in earlier printings as well. "[93], The depiction of Lilith in Romanticism continues to be popular among Wiccans and in other modern Occultism. Folkloric traditions recorded around 1953 tell about a jinn called Qarinah, who was rejected by Adam and mated with Iblis instead. In this folk tradition that arose in the early Middle Ages Lilith, a dominant female demon, became identified with Asmodeus, King of Demons, as his queen. Though the names are not completely identical, the same whispering, threatening motif can be heard here as well. One bowl contains the following inscription commissioned from a Jewish occultist to protect a woman called Rashnoi and her husband from Lilith: Thou liliths, male lili and female lilith, hag and ghool, I adjure you by the Strong One of Abraham, by the Rock of Isaac, by the Shaddai of Jacob, by Yah Ha-Shem by Yah his memorial, to turn away from this Rashnoi b. M. and from Geyonai b. M. her husband. After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, 'It is not good for man to be alone' (Genesis 2:18). In answer to your question concerning Lilith, I shall explain to you the essence of the matter. The Matron Lilith is the mate of Samael. All who go to her cannot return The female side was Lilith, whereupon she flew to the Cities of the Sea and attacked humankind. An amulet attributed to Isaac Luria, "The Holy ARI", 1855, 2020 , Prayers, Amulets and Spells to Ward off Plague. With her major characteristics having been well developed by the end of the Talmudic period, after six centuries had elapsed between the Aramaic incantation texts that mention Lilith and the early Spanish Kabbalistic writings in the 13th century, she reappears, and her life history becomes known in greater mythological detail. Enter your e-mail below to receive the most interesting, quality content about the treasures preserved in the National Library! [51], An individual Lilith, along with Bagdana "king of the lilits", is one of the demons to feature prominently in protective spells in the eighty surviving Jewish occult incantation bowls from Sassanid Empire Babylon (4th6th century AD) with influence from Iranian culture. In 1980, this Pashkevil poster warning of the plague of archaeology spreading throughout the Holy Land was printed and hung up in various ultra-orthodox communities. [e], The early 5th-century Vulgate translated the same word as lamia. Amen, Amen, Selah, Halleluyah! ~Ari'el Share The angels left God and pursued Lilith, whom they overtook in the midst of the sea, in the mighty waters wherein the Egyptians were destined to drown. Browning depicts Lilith and Eve as being friendly and complicitous with each other, as they sit together on either side of Adam. What is the origin of these three angels? They found her at the Red Sea, where she was giving birth daily to numerous demons. Adams first wife is described as having been created from dust, just as he was, and therefore, argues scholar Joseph Dan, she saw herself as his equal in every aspect. When God called her, she joined Adam. Major sources in Jewish tradition regarding Lilith in chronological order include: The Dead Sea Scrolls contain one indisputable reference to Lilith in Songs of the Sage (4Q510511)[42] fragment 1: And I, the Instructor, proclaim His glorious splendour so as to frighten and to te[rrify] all the spirits of the destroying angels, spirits of the bastards, demons, Lilith, howlers, and [desert dwellers] and those which fall upon men without warning to lead them astray from a spirit of understanding and to make their heart and their desolate during the present dominion of wickedness and predetermined time of humiliations for the sons of lig[ht], by the guilt of the ages of [those] smitten by iniquity not for eternal destruction, [bu]t for an era of humiliation for transgression.[43]. Take a good look. [50] However, to be exact the said passages do not employ the Hebrew word lilith itself and instead speak of "the first Eve" (Heb. 151b; b. Baba Bathra 73ab, Kabbalist References: Zohar 3:76b77a; Zohar Sitrei Torah 1:147b148b; Zohar 2:267b; Bacharach,'Emeq haMelekh, 19c; Zohar 3:19a; Bacharach,'Emeq haMelekh, 102d103a; Zohar 1:54b55a, Dead Sea Scroll References: 4QSongs of the Sage/4QShir; 4Q510 frag.11.46a//frag.10.1f; 11QPsAp, Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants, "Finding Lilith: The Most Powerful Hag In History", Collection of Lilith information and links, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lilith&oldid=1139992560, (the) night-demon Lilith, evil and rapacious (, "[Expounding upon the curses of womanhood] In a, "For gira he should take an arrow of Lilith and place it point upwards and pour water on it and drink it. And she also afflicts him with sickness, and he knows it not, and all this takes place when the moon is on the wane.[74]. [25], Suggested translations for the Tablet XII spirit in the tree include ki-sikil as "sacred place", lil as "spirit", and lil-la-ke as "water spirit",[26] but also simply "owl", given that the lil is building a home in the trunk of the tree. Behold, here it is before you: because of the sins of Adam the first man all the things mentioned came into being. If you placed an amulet with the name of the 3 Angels on it, and placed it on the baby, lilith could not harm it. None of those who enter there will ever return, Found in the wild waters The message was delivered She declined their offer Thus refused to return. Commentators and interpreters often envision the figure of Lilith as a dangerous demon of the night, who is sexually wanton, and who steals babies in the darkness. First published in 1883, the poem uses the traditional myths surrounding the triad of Adam, Eve, and Lilith. Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof Besides for the angels, the four rivers that come out of the Garden of Eden mention in the biblical account in Genesis is also used in our amulet. The first one is present in Genesis Rabbah 22:7 and 18:4: according to Rabbi Hiyya God proceeded to create a second Eve for Adam, after Lilith had to return to dust. Here is a profile of their names and images in symbolism. Tags. [104], This article is about the Jewish religious figure Lilith. Magical amulet, to be hung up it seems (scalloped top edge, like a plaque), with the formula "Senoy Sansenoy Semangelof Adam ve-Hava Lilit u." Same scalloped top edge and same text as AIU VI.B.31. Wycliffe's Bible (1395) preserves the Latin rendering lamia: Isa 34:15 Lamya schal ligge there, and foond rest there to hir silf. Lilith believed she could leave her husband, and as he refused to accept this decree of equality in their sex life apparently meaning that Lilith wished to be on top of her husband during intercourse, she fled from him and escaped.. According to myths, Lilith, the female demon, is looking to snatch and kill sleeping babies as a revenge on Adam. The common wisdom in Jerusalem of the period spoke of a new wave of pestilence hitting the city every six or seven years. It made its way to the Land of Israel from Egypt around 541-542 AD. Moses responds to a threat by God that He will destroy the Israelite people. Lilith is popular among theistic Satanists because of her association with Satan. (image), The pseudepigraphical[58] 8th10th centuries Alphabet of Ben Sira is considered to be the oldest form of the story of Lilith as Adam's first wife. The names of the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Samengelof also appear, as do the names Lilith and Satan. Adam complained to God: "I have been deserted by my helpmeet." God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. [77], The sheet contains two texts within borders, which are amulets, one for a male ('lazakhar'), the other one for a female ('lanekevah'). [75] Gershom Scholem proposes that the author of the Zohar, Rabbi Moses de Leon, was aware of both the folk tradition of Lilith and another conflicting version, possibly older. They wouldn't force her to come back to Adam under one condition. And the Serpent, the Woman of Harlotry, incited and seduced Eve through the husks of Light which in itself is holiness. [98][99], Raymond Buckland holds that Lilith is a dark moon goddess on par with the Hindu Kali. [103] Dion Fortune writes, "The Virgin Mary is reflected in Lilith",[104] and that Lilith is the source of "lustful dreams". Another version[69] that was also current among Kabbalistic circles in the Middle Ages establishes Lilith as the first of Samael's four wives: Lilith, Naamah, Eisheth, and Agrat bat Mahlat. The character Mr. Beaver ascribes the ancestry of the main antagonist, Jadis the White Witch, to Lilith. Two organisations that use initiations and magic associated with Lilith are the Ordo Antichristianus Illuminati and the Order of Phosphorus. Before doing so, she attaches herself to Cain and bears him numerous spirits and demons. [7], The Septuagint translates both the reference to Lilith and the word for jackals or "wild beasts of the island" within the same verse into Greek as onokentauros, apparently assuming them as referring to the same creatures and omitting "wildcats/wild beasts of the desert" (so, instead of the wildcats or desert beasts meeting with the jackals or island beasts, the goat or "satyr" crying "to his fellow" and lilith or "screech owl" resting "there", it is the goat or "satyr", translated as daimonia "demons", and the jackals or island beasts "onocentaurs" meeting with each other and crying "one to the other" and the latter resting there in the translation). A plague of non-kosher meat, from the British Mandate period. To prevent Lilith and Samael's demonic children Lilin from filling the world, God castrated Samael. The first occurrence of plague in the recorded history of the Middle East was known as the Plague of Justinian, named after the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I. Many of the traditional characteristics of Lilith mythology are present in the author's depiction: Long dark hair, pale skin, a hatred and fear of children and babies, and an obsession with gazing at herself in a mirror. [12] For example, in the 13th-century writings of Isaac ben Jacob ha-Cohen, Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she had coupled with the archangel Samael. Her beauty's one boast is her dangerous hair. The "screech owl" translation of the King James Version is, together with the "owl" (yanup, probably a water bird) in 34:11 and the "great owl" (qippoz, properly a snake) of 34:15, an attempt to render the passage by choosing suitable animals for difficult to translate Hebrew words. 25 in, Davis, Michael T.; Strawn, Brent A. (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof are featured in this amulet (from the Bill Gross Collection) that safeguards a newborn child and its mother with an incantation against Lilith. Source: Angels and Demons edited by Filip Vukosavovic. [64], Two primary characteristics are seen in these legends about Lilith: Lilith as the incarnation of lust, causing men to be led astray, and Lilith as a child-killing witch, who strangles helpless neonates. Angelic FoeOppressed By the Heavens PrikosnovenieReleased on: 2013-04-30Author: Angelic FoeCom. On the other three pages of the bifolium is a list of Torah and Prophets readings. She said, "I will not lie below," and he said, "I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. All rights reserved The National Library of Israel 2017 , The sages of Safed created amulets, the Jews of Italy wrote prayers and other Jews warned of less conventional plagues. According to the legend, if she can't destroy or claim the human infant, because of the angelic amulet, she may spitefully turn against her own children, the Lilim, in a fit of rage. Ben Sira is presented as the son of Jeremiah, born to the prophet's own daughter who dipped in a mikveh into which Jeremiah was previously forced to lay seed. Concerning this point there is a received tradition from the ancient Sages who made use of the Secret Knowledge of the Lesser Palaces, which is the manipulation of demons and a ladder by which one ascends to the prophetic levels. (Babylonian Talmud on Tractate Shabbath 151b), "R. Jeremiah b. Eleazar further stated: In all those years [130 years after his expulsion from the Garden of Eden] during which Adam was under the ban he begot, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 22:22. Senoy, Sansenoy & Semangelof symbols. Both of them were born at the same hour in the image of Adam and Eve, intertwined in each other. "I was created only to cause sickness to infants. She shall become an abode for jackals and a haunt for ostriches. The mystical writing of two brothers Jacob and Isaac Hacohen, Treatise on the Left Emanation, which predates the Zohar by a few decades, states that Samael and Lilith are in the shape of an androgynous being, double-faced, born out of the emanation of the Throne of Glory and corresponding in the spiritual realm to Adam and Eve, who were likewise born as a hermaphrodite. Alphabet of Ben Sirah, Question #5 (23ab). The translation is, "And demons shall meet with monsters, and one hairy one shall cry out to another; there the lamia has lain down and found rest for herself". Tapping the child on the nose, it was believed, made her go away. Lilith? Two magical incantations against the evil eye. They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons, to whom she bore lilim at the rate of more than one hundred a day. Adam was left lying as a body without a soul. This aspect of God was negative and punitive, as well as one of his ten attributes (Sefirot), at its lowest manifestation has an affinity with the realm of evil and it is out of this that Lilith merged with Samael. DouayRheims Bible (1582/1610) also preserves the Latin rendering lamia: Isa 34:14 And demons and monsters shall meet, and the hairy ones shall cry out one to another, there hath the lamia lain down, and found rest for herself. [96] In some contemporary concepts, Lilith is viewed as the embodiment of the Goddess, a designation that is thought to be shared with what these faiths believe to be her counterparts: Inanna, Ishtar, Asherah, Anath, Anahita and Isis. A way of resolving the apparent discrepancy between these two accounts was to assume that there must have been some other first woman, apart from the one later identified with Eve. Thy spell through him, and left his straight neck bent These talismans invoke the names of the angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, or sometimes the prophet Elijah, in order to protect young children from the grasp of Lilith. The idea in the text that Adam had a wife prior to Eve may have developed from an interpretation of the Book of Genesis and its dual creation accounts; while Genesis 2:22 describes God's creation of Eve from Adam's rib, an earlier passage, 1:27, already indicates that a woman had been made: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Demon-Busting Magical Bowls from Babylon! Hormin who is mentioned here as the son of Lilith is most probably a result of a scribal error of the word "Hormiz" attested in some of the Talmudic manuscripts. the first Adam). They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons, to whom she bore 'lilim' at the rate of more than one hundred a day. 18:3). [60] The amulets used against Lilith that were thought to derive from this tradition are, in fact, dated as being much older. Below it, were the names of the primogenitors: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. And still she sits, young while the earth is old, This is the earliest Jewish amulet to appear in print. Likewise, women who undergo wilful abortion, and those who support this practice are "seen in the sphere of Lilith". however, sent after her three angels-Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof by name,11 who soon located her in the same wild waters in which the Egyptians were to . Again playing on the Hebrew phrase zot hapaam, Adam, according to the same midrash, declares: "it is she [zot] who is destined to strike the bell [zog] and to speak [in strife] against me, as you read, 'a golden bell [paamon] and a pomegranate' [Exodus 28:34] it is she who will trouble me [mefaamtani] all night" (Genesis Rabbah 18:4). 'Return to Adam without delay,' the angels said, `or we will drown you!' Lilith.Faust: Accordingly, every day one hundred demons perish, and for the same reason, we write the angels' names on the amulets of young children. (17) It is He who casts the lot for them, and with His hands He marks off their shares of her; They shall possess her forever, and dwell there from generation to generation. Moses pleads before God, that God should not be like Lilith who kills her own children. gone , were inscribed. Leland further notes that Herodias is a name that comes from west Asia, where it denoted an early form of Lilith. Adam complained to God: 'I have been deserted by my helpmeet' God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. amulet and asked "Who are these?" Ben Sira answered, "The angels who are in charge of medicine: Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof." [In English: Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof.] However, they are defeated by Methuselah, who slays thousands of them with a holy sword and forces Agrimas to give him the names of the rest, after which he casts them away to the sea and the mountains.[68]. While researchers almost universally agree that a connection exists, recent scholarship has disputed the relevance of two sources previously used to connect the Jewish lilith to an Akkadian liltu the Gilgamesh appendix and the Arslan Tash amulets[14] (see below for discussion of these two problematic sources). For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one." On Adam's request, God sent three angels, named Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, who found her in the Red Sea. An amulet from the Bill Gross Collection, the National Librarys Time Travel Project. [40][41], et occurrent daemonia onocentauris et pilosus clamabit alter ad alterum ibi cubavit lamia et invenit sibi requiem. Since the end of the Talmudic period, Samael has often been portrayed as the source of all evil; his agents charged with defeating the cause of good and righteousness. Alternatively he can take water of which a dog has drunk at night, but he must take care that it has not been exposed." (Yalqut Reubeni, Zohar 1:34b, 3:19[79]), Charles Richardson's dictionary portion of the Encyclopdia Metropolitana appends to his etymological discussion of lullaby "a [manuscript] note written in a copy of Skinner" [i.e. hawks [kites, gledes] also they-gather, every one with its mate. . The last manuscript which we will present also hails from 19th century Italy. Because Adam tried to compel her obedience by force, Lilith, in a rage, uttered the magic name of God, rose into the air and left him. [7] In the Ancient Mesopotamian religion, found in cuneiform texts of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia Lilith signifies a spirit or demon.[1][8][9]. Lilith appears as a succubus in Aleister Crowley's De Arte Magica. And, subtly of herself contemplative, The amulets used against Lilith that were thought to derive from this tradition are in fact, . Is he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent The name of his mate is Mehetabel daughter of Matred, and their daughter is Lilith.[73]. Senoy, Sansenoy and Smangeluf (sometimes written Semangelof, or Snvi, Snsnvi and Smnglof) are three guarding angels in the Jewish mythology. But she swore to them by the name of the living and eternal God: "Whenever I see you or your names or your forms in an amulet, I will have no power over that infant." [47][52] These bowls were buried upside down below the structure of the house or on the land of the house, in order to trap the demon or demoness. This is the earliest Jewish amulet to appear in paper print. Is This What the First Temple Looked Like? The three angels were made popular by the Alphabet of ben Sirah, while the illustrations of their images in various amulets also contributed to their fame. Some uses of lltu are listed in the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD, 1956, L.190), in Wolfram von Soden's Akkadisches Handwrterbuch (AHw, p.553), and Reallexikon der Assyriologie (RLA, p. Thus, the merging of Lilith and Asmodeus was inevitable. (eds. It would become evident that the child was not fathered by the husband, and the child would be looked down on. The Black Suitcase of Magical Amulets with a Mysterious History. When Lilith winds it tight around young men destroy the Israelite people], that the nations of the world may not regard you as a cruel Being and say: 'The Generation of the Flood came and He destroyed them, the Generation of the Separation came and He destroyed them, the Sodomites and the Egyptians came and He destroyed them, and these also, whom he called My son, My firstborn (Ex. His slave, soul, body, and all! Ben Sira's fame reached Nebuchadnezzar II, who called him to his court. 34:15 there she-shall-nest the great-owl, and she-lays-(eggs), and she-hatches, and she-gathers under her-shadow: The charm in fact consists of two different amulets joined together, one on top and one below. This is why one hundred of Lilith's demon children die every day and why the names of the three angels, Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, written on an amulet, protect people from her evil influence. The invocations mention Adam, Eve and Lilith, 'Chavah Rishonah' (the first Eve, who is identical with Lilith), also devils or angels: Sanoy, Sansinoy, Smangeluf, Shmari'el (the guardian) and Hasdi'el (the merciful). According to Augustine Calmet, Lilith has connections with early views on vampires and sorcery: Some learned men have thought they discovered some vestiges of vampirism in the remotest antiquity; but all that they say of it does not come near what is related of the vampires. the goat he-calls his- fellowlilit (lilith) she-rests and she-finds rest[d] God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight. 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In the Dead Sea Scrolls 4Q510-511, the term first occurs in a list of monsters. For instance, Isaiah, describing the condition to which Babylon was to be reduced after her ruin, says that she shall become the abode of satyrs, lamiae, and strigae (in Hebrew, lilith). [17], Archibald Sayce (1882)[18][pageneeded] considered that Hebrew lilit (or lilith) and the earlier Akkadian lltu are derived from Proto-Semitic. The subsequent creation is performed with adequate precautions: Adam is made to sleep, so as not to witness the process itself (Sanhedrin 39a), and Eve is adorned with fine jewellery (Genesis rabbah 18:1) and brought to Adam by the angels Gabriel and Michael (ibid. The names are surrounded by three frames: The first has illustrations of a birth and circumcision ceremony, the second frame consists of verses, and the third features decorative ornaments. [citation needed] However, the idea that Lilith was the predecessor may be exclusive to the Alphabet. . In the text an amulet is inscribed with the names of three angels (Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof) and placed around the neck of newborn boys in order to protect them from the lilin until their circumcision. The condition was that Lilith promised that she would not touch any child that had an amulet inscribed with the angels' names. We found the amulet below in a copy of the book Shaar HaYichudim (The Gate of Unifications) by the famous Safed Kabbalist Hayyim ben Joseph Vital. The incantation bowls which have been analysed, are inscribed in the following languages, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Syriac, Mandaic, Middle Persian, and Arabic. A similar version, related to the earlier Talmudic passages, recounts how Lilith was fashioned with the same substance as Adam was, shortly before. [86], The occult writer Ahmad al-Buni (d. 1225), in his Sun of the Great Knowledge (Arabic: ), mentions a demon called "the mother of children" ( ), a term also used "in one place". Editions [ edit] ), Ribichini, S. (1976) "Lilith nell-albero Huluppu", pp. His main partner is his wife, Lilith. That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, During this time "Pizna", either an alternate name for Lilith or a daughter of hers, desires his beauty and seduces him against his will. These talismans invoke the names of the angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, or sometimes the prophet Elijah, in order to protect young children from the grasp of Lilith. The Akkadian word lilu is related to the Hebrew word lilith in Isaiah 34:14, which is thought to be a night bird by some modern scholars such as Judit M. (14) Wildcats shall meet with desert beasts, satyrs shall call to one another; There shall the Lilith repose, and find for herself a place to rest. [64] But the aspect of the witch-like role that Lilith plays broadens her archetype of the destructive side of witchcraft. Yet another version claims that Lilith emerged as a divine entity that was born spontaneously, either out of the Great Supernal Abyss or out of the power of an aspect of God (the Gevurah of Din). Till heart and body and life are in its hold. I,74.1. [2] She is thought to be mentioned in Biblical Hebrew in the Book of Isaiah,[3] and in Late Antiquity in Mandaean mythology and Jewish mythology sources from 500 CE onward. MacDonald's Lilith also has vampiric qualities: she bites people and sucks their blood for sustenance. British poet John Siddique's 2011 collection Full Blood has a suite of 11 poems called The Tree of Life, which features Lilith as the divine feminine aspect of God. William F. Albright, Theodor H. Gaster,[32] and others, accepted the amulets as a pre-Jewish source which shows that the name Lilith already existed in the 7th century BC but Torczyner (1947) identified the amulets as a later Jewish source.[33]. [94][95], Gerald Gardner asserted that there was continuous historical worship of Lilith to present day, and that her name is sometimes given to the goddess being personified in the coven by the priestess. Since the most common Jewish amulets known to us are those designed to protect women giving birth, we can safely assume that the three angels who appear on these types of charms are among the most common figures associated with the Hebrew amulet. Lilith and Faust engage in a short dialogue, where Lilith recounts the days spent in Eden. Gilgamesh is said to have killed the snake, and then the zu bird flew away to the mountains with its young, while the ki-sikil-lil-la-ke fearfully destroys its house and runs for the forest. The ancient Greeks knew these dangerous sorceresses by the name of lamiae, and they believed that they devoured children, or sucked away all their blood till they died. 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