Who is Lilith

She goes by many other different names like Lama, a witch who steals children as well as Meyallaleth who was the first night demon. She is also referred to as the howling one. Many have said that Isaiah 34:!4 refers to Lilith when it talks of a screeching owl: “The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.” Some scholars even speculate that Lilith was the serpent that tempted Eve instead of Satan. She is also known as the Queen of the demons because it is thought that she is Satan’s favorite wife and of course bore him many demons. Lilith is often viewed with long flowing hair with wings and taloned feet.

Not only is it thought that Lilith was wife to Adam and Satan, but also another demon named Samael, who is one of the demonic angels of death. The myth says that she was the first of his four wives. The two have been referred to as “Leviathan the Slant Serpent and Leviathan the Torturous Serpent.” In the Talmudic myth it is said that God castrated Samael in order to keep the two from mating and bearing more demonic children. So Lilith left Samael to mate with men who have night “emissions” or in other words “wet dreams.” It is said that when men have these dreams it is Lilith that causes them. It is also said that Samael is the son of Adam and Lilith from one of the times when she seduces him at night after leaving Eden.

In another article by an unknown author on rahoorkhuit.net says that Lilith would attack children in their sleep. She would make the laugh by tickling their feet until they giggled, then she would strangle them. Mothers would tap the baby’s nose and cry out “Away Lilith, you have no place here” or place an amulet around the child’s neck to keep her at bay. It is said she had power over children in their first week after birth, the young girls a little longer than the boys.

All of the theories of Lilith all have the same element: Lilith becomes a seductress and attacks children since she loses all of hers. We can never know which theory is correct or which is wrong. When there are so many different versions of the same thing, makes it hard to take something as fact, so we shouldn’t assume that Adam had a first wife and look further into scripture. Chapter two of Genesis goes in greater detail of how male and female humans were created; not describing a second creation of woman.