Show w r A da I 1 1 t www 0 f a a 1 4 r yi r ly M JL arjil r od WW W 1 AJL t l sl r ua 1 i written expressly f for or this magazine f to td jewish traditions A ACCORDING fir firmly m ly accepted by the orthodox of tha that baio eve was not the first wife to the gentleman to whom she presen presented fd tile the apple that honor belonged to a lady named lilith and her creation is told in the first chapter of genesis tradition here steps in in and says that lilith refusing to be bossed b by adam adain a divorce followed on the ground of incompatibility of temperament me at adam kept all the property and lilith was turned out of tile the garden to hustle bustle for herself as best she could then only was it necess necessary ry as related in the second chapter to make of one of adams ribs an helpmeet for him lilith being turned out and there being tio no fine sewing to take in after the fashion of lone ladies of a later day brooded blooded in mischief making idleness after fter the episode of the apple she arrayed herself in stunning finery appeared before adam taunted him with the scrape his second wife had got him into and tried to io steal little cain judging by what we know of himi him it is likely that had she succeeded she would have bro brought 9 him back lilith having been put out of the gar den before the sentence of death was passed aisch upon its inhabitants is exempt from that decree and according to the belief is still upon the earth she regards every man as adam and appearing in various guises gets up the most outrageous flirtations particularly with married men she is also bitter against the daughters of eve and tries upon all possible occasions to steal their children dr n in many ortho orthodox olo households charms are arc kept bearing words which avill vill protect the children from f rom the prowling eliuth belief in this personage has not always been and indeed is not yet s A confined to people of jewish baith fn an the middle fiddle A ages the belief was accepted without question by bv tile the christian world and pc innocent VIII issued a decree puis punish pu punishing is ng with death any married man or eccli ecclesiastic aftic who should yield to her blandishments blandish ments lying or crazy accusations I 1 of course followed and several unfortunate fortunate tc priests ests suffered the extreme pc penalty nalty witchcraft accusations in which in many thousands of cases suffering and death followed can be tracer traced to this fable at once absurd and berdi ble |