Folklore Forensics
The Case Against Lilith: The Child-Killing Demoness of Grief
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For more than two thousand years, grieving families blamed the same woman for the deaths of their children. Her name was Lilith.
You've heard the story. Now hear the case.
Across ancient Mesopotamia, Jewish folklore, medieval Europe, and generations of household tradition, Lilith became an immortal woman of the night: an enemy of childbirth, a killer of infants, and one of folklore's most…