This female demon in Jewish popular belief is already mentioned in the Old Testament (Isaiah 34:14). She has her origins in the → Lilitu of Babylonian demonology, but popular etymology has taken her name to mean ‘she of the night’....

A mythological female demon. According to the *Midrash, Lilith was created before *Eve, but fell out with *Adam because she would not accept his dominance. She was believed in folk legend to kill new-born babies and in the *Zohar is described as...

(or Ardat-lili) A Babylonian nocturnal demon, corresponding to the Sumerian → Kiskillilla and continuing to lead a ghostly existence in the Jewish →...

Lilith (Hebrew לילית) is a mythological female Mesopotamian storm demon associated with wind and was thought to be a bearer of disease, illness, and death. The figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind and storm demons or spirits as...