She is sometimes associated with other characters in legend and myth, including the queen of Sheba and Helen of Troy. In addition to Jewish folklore, Lilith appears in various forms in Iranian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Canaanite, Persian, Arabic, Teutonic, Mexican, Greek, English, Asian, and Native American legends. She is the original “scarlet woman” and sometimes described as a screech owl, blind by day, who sucks the breasts or navels of young children or the dugs of goats. She is the dark aspect of the Mother Goddess. in the book of Isaiah she or beings similar to her also are found in myths from other cultures around the world. Lilith is a major figure in Jewish Demonology, appearing as early as 700 B.C.E. Lilith is a female Demon of the night and Succubus who flies about searching for newborn children to kidnap or strangle and sleeping men to seduce in order to produce Demon children.
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