v_public_adversarial_beings: 67

Demons, adversarial figures, and hostile entities across traditions.

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rowid entity_id canonical_name tradition category primary_domains short_note
67 ENT_JM_LILITH Lilith Jewish Mystical Adversarial Being demoness; night; infant death; Adam's first wife; sexual danger; Sheol Female demon; first attested as "lilit" in Isaiah 34:14 (night creature of the desolation). The Babylonian Talmud (Eruvin 100b) describes a nocturnal spirit with wings who harms men sleeping alone. The Alphabet of Ben Sira (9th–11th c. CE) develops the narrative of Lilith as Adam's first wife who refused to lie beneath him, spoke the ineffable name, and flew to the Red Sea to consort with demons. In Kabbalistic literature (Zohar, Zohar Chadash) Lilith becomes the consort of Samael, queen of the demonic realm, and the dark counterpart of the Shekhinah β€” embodying the "left side" of the divine feminine.