The Legend of Lilith.
According to the Talmud, Adam had a wife before Eve, by whom he became the father of demons. She refused to submit to the authority of her husband and loft paradise for a region of the air, which she still haunts as a specter and lies in wait for and frWa children. It is said that our word lullaby is a corruption of the words "Lilla, abi," or "Begone, Lilith." Lilis, or Lilith, also became a legendary witch of the middle ages. The superstition that a child must wear an amulet to be safe from Lilith's evil intentions still exists among Ignorant Jews.
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Manawatu Herald, 4 August 1896, Page 4
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107The Legend of Lilith. Manawatu Herald, 4 August 1896, Page 4
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