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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 685 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LILITH (Heb. lildtu, "
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night "; hence " night-
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monster ")  , a
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female demon of Jewish folk-
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lore,
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equivalent to the
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English
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vampire . The
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personality and name are derived from a Babylonian-
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Assyrian demon Lilit or Lilu .
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Lilith was believed to have a
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special
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power for evil over
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children . The superstition was extended to a cult surviving among some
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Jews even as
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late as the 7th
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century A.D . In the Rabbinical literature Lilith becomes the first wife of
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Adam, but flies away from him and becomes a demon .

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