Demons

Supernatural

While demons appear in a few episodes in the Bible, they are more prominent in talmudic and kabbalistic literature. Jewish texts tell stories of demons, analyze their nature, and discuss how to avoid them and how fear of demons shapes some Jewish practices.

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Drawing Of a Devil, Image taken from f. 184 of Festival prayer book (~mahzor~) for the Special Shabbatot, Passover, Shavuot with the Book of Ruth, and Ninth of Av with the Book of Lamentations, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'Tinted Mahzor'). Written in Hebrew. British Library

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