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Lilith is a female demon in Jewish legends, found first in the Dead Sea scrolls. The legend is related to a Hebrew language term lilith meaning night, and has also been linked to beliefs about demons called lili in ancient Mesopotamia. It is believed by some that during creation, Lilith was made before Eve was. This version states she was created from the same dirt as Adam.

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  • Great Isaiah Scroll

    Photographic reproduction of the Great Isaiah Scroll, which contains a reference to plural liliyyot

  • Incantation bowl demon Met L1999.83.3

    Incantation bowl with an Aramaic inscription around a demon, from Nippur, Mesopotamia, 6–7th century

  • Lilith (Carl Poellath)

    Lilith, illustration by Carl Poellath from 1886 or earlier

  • Filippino Lippi- Adam

    Adam clutches a child in the presence of the child-snatcher Lilith. Fresco by Filippino Lippi, basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Florence

  • Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem - The Fall of Man - WGA05250

    The Fall of Man by Cornelis van Haarlem (1592), showing the serpent in the Garden of Eden as a woman

  • Medieval amulet to protect mother and child. Wellcome M0008070

    Medieval Hebrew amulet intended to protect a mother and her child from Lilith

  • Richard Westall - Faust and Lilith

    Faust and Lilith by Richard Westall (1831)

  • Lady-Lilith

    Lady Lilith by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1866–1868, 1872–1873)

See also

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