Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural by Howard Schwartz

Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural
Howard Schwartz
Page: 288
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ISBN: 9780195067262
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Once upon a time in the city of Tunis, a flirtatious young girl was drawn into Lilith's dangerous web by glancing repeatedly at herself in the mirror. It seems that a demon daughter of the legendary Lilith had made her home in the mirror and would soon completely possess the unsuspecting girl. Such tales of terror and the supernatural occupy an honored position in the Jewish folkloric tradition. Howard Schwartz has superbly translated and retold fifty of the best of these folktales, now collected into one volume for the first time. Gathered from countless sources ranging from the ancient Middle East to twelfth-century Germany and later Eastern European ...

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