Demons in Jewish Mythology

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Lilith, Asmodeus, Samael, and the shadowy world of Jewish demonology drawn from the Talmud, Midrash, and Kabbalah.
Myth 5 min

Lilith at the Throne and the Mother's Door

After the Temple falls, Lilith takes a stolen seat in the ruined house, then enters a mother's room in Kurdish Jewish memory and is trapped.

LilithDemonsShekhinahKabbalahFolklore
Myth 4 min

Terah Was Born Into a World the Ravens Were Eating

Mastema sent ravens to strip the fields bare when Terah was born. The famine that named him shaped the world his son Abraham would one day defy.

TerahMastemaRavensJubileesAbramChaldeesFamineDemons
Myth 5 min

Cities Surrendered Everything to Holofernes Then His Own Army Fled

Every city along the Assyrian advance surrendered all they had. By dawn after Judith left the camp, that same army was running for its life.

WarDemonsBook Of JudithJudithHolofernesBethuliaApocrypha
Myth 6 min

The Demon No Sword Could Kill and the Bargain on the Road

A dragon-demon immune to every blade can be slain only by its own blood, and on a night road a demon offers gold for one man's eternity.

DemonsFolk DemonologyShedimDragonWorld To ComeSefer Chasidim
Myth 6 min

The Tree Where Demons Traded Their Cures in the Dark

A trusting man is cheated of his food and left to die in the desert, then overhears two demons trade the secret cures that make him rich.

DemonsDesertBetrayalHealingReversalFolktale
Myth 6 min

Bar Shalmon Breaks Four Oaths and the Demon Bride Collects

A merchant breaks his dying father vow, weds a demon princess of Ergetz, flees home, and she crosses the sky to claim every promise he sold.

Bar ShalmonAshmedaiDemonsOathsErgetzJewish FolkloreAsmodeus