6 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
After Abel's blood soaked the ground, Adam fled Eve for 130 years. Female spirits found him there, and grief took on bodies.
Jonah's ship was the human body. The sailors were the limbs. The captain was the heart. And the Torah was the soul that kept the whole vessel from going under.
The Zohar and Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer agree on the origin of demons: God stopped creating before their bodies were finished. The Sabbath did not wait.
After the Flood Noah prays against evil spirits, Mastema bargains to keep one tenth of them, and angels teach Noah remedies to fight back.
Adam once opened four riverheads with one spade. After the serpent, his face changed. By Enosh the divine image thinned and spirits found prey.
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.
