79 myths · Page 3 of 3
In the dark years after the Flood the world forgot God, until a boy of fourteen ran at Mastema's ravens and turned the black sky back.
Asmodeus said his business was wrecking marriages. Solomon chained him and made him haul water jars, ten at a time, past fish liver burning on a reed.
Rabbi Hanina paid a fortune for a silver dish and found a live frog inside. It ate everything he owned, then told him whose son it was.
Shem, Ham, and Japheth stood in a half-circle while their father laid down a rule: whoever sheds blood or eats it leaves no seed under heaven.
Nebuchadnezzar climbs Solomon's golden steps and a lion paw shatters his thigh. Only Cyrus sits whole on the seat that once judged beasts.
The demon king strips Solomon of power and flings his ring into the deep, until a fish on a foreign table returns the throne with the meal.
A barefoot widow ran out of her hut and begged the chained prisoner not to lean on her wall. He bent away so hard he snapped one of his own bones.
A king raises a child without ever showing him a woman, then calls women demons. The boy surveys the world and chooses the demons first.
A closed booklet held names no one should speak. Ninety-seven forces of impurity hid in two Torah words, and Gehenna (afterlife of judgment) shook for the.
A marble statue spoke from the dirt and promised riches for a clean shelf. When it asked for a lamp, the axe came down.
In Posen a goldsmith keeps a secret wife in the cellar. On Passover his human wife follows him down and sees the truth.
Job locked his gate against the Accuser, then sent burnt bread. The servant swapped it. Satan took the threat home to Job's flesh and his wife's hair.
Solomon put a vampire spirit to work cutting stone at the Temple. Then he handed it his seal ring and sent it to fetch the king of the demons.
Johanan carried three loaves down the road and broke them for a starving crow and a starving dog. He paid a ransom to put a doomed fish back in the sea.
In a sickroom at night a woman shakes free her hair and tries to fly. Stopped twice, she dies hungry, then returns as a cat begging bread and salt.
A man kills in an empty field and trusts the dark, but the heavenly tablets record every deed and the sword and fire are already coming.
Moses set the last board of the sanctuary in place. Rabbi Yochanan heard a word for wiping out in that verse, and said the demons lost the earth that day.
A childless man bargains at the graves for a son who understands birds, and what the birds foretell drives the father to the river.
Goat-shaped spirits swarm a boy the first time he opens the words, and behind them stand the altars where his fathers poured out blood.
