Authors note: According to Rabbinical legend, Adam and Lilith, his first wife, quarreled as soon as they were created, as to which should be master. Lilith, in anger at Adam's claim, repeated a spell which gave her wings, and fled to the wild placed of the earth. She married Sammael, a fallen Angel, and in conspiracy with him compassed the fall of Adam and Eve by borrowing the form of the Serpent which guarded the gate of Eden, and tempting the woman from the midst of the foliage of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Hence in old Italian pictures of the Temptation, the Serpent is sometimes represented with a beautiful woman's face. A curse was laid on Lilith that no child of hers should live: and she henceforth had a terrible power over children, who, when they sicken and die, are said to be bewitched by her. She was doomed forever to wander unseen, unloved, alone.
-Darl Macleod Boyle
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