2 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Serpents from across Jewish tradition.
2 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines serpents, 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.
A king lost three caravans to the serpents of Shur and a woodcutter lost his hair to one glance, yet slaves and infants crossed the same waste untouched.
Past the divided sea lay a waste of serpents thick as olive-press beams, where a king lost three caravans and a woodcutter lost all his hair.
