6 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Fallen Angels from across Jewish tradition.
6 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines fallen angels, drawn from the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, Talmud, Kabbalah, and later Jewish literature. Each story below synthesizes primary sources into a single narrative; follow any myth to read it, and from there into the source passages behind it.
Enoch vanishes from a genealogy without a grave. Two blazing angels lift him from his bed, and he returns as Metatron, heaven's Great Scribe.
Abraham is waiting for the evening sacrifice at the altar when a bird descends on the carcasses. It tells him to run before he burns.
Two hundred angels swore an oath on Mount Hermon and descended. Azazel taught weapons and cosmetics. Four archangels bound him under the desert.
Enoch ascends through dark heavens, finds chained angels weeping in gloom, then silent Watchers stripped of light, still awaiting judgment.
Two hundred angels swore an oath together on Mount Hermon. Azazel taught men to forge blades and women to paint their faces. Raphael buried him upside down.
The women lined their eyes with kohl and walked to be seen, and the Watchers leaned over heaven's edge until they were no longer leaning but falling.
