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Lilith

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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he name of Adam's first wife, whom, according to Jewish tradition, he had before Eve, and who bore him in that wedlock the whole progeny of aërial, aquatic, and terrestrial devils, and who, it seems, still wanders about the world bewitching men to like issue and slaying little children not protected by amulets against her.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Lilith'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​l/lilith.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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