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 disappears without a grave. Two blazing angels summon him from his bed, and he returns as the highest angel in heaven.
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.
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.
In the days of Jared the angels came down to teach mankind, and their holy errand soured into lust, giants, and the blood that summoned the Flood.
In the second heaven, Enoch found angels chained in darkness, weeping without ceasing. They had obeyed only themselves. They asked a mortal to pray for them.
