Adam's first wife, in Jewish lore

Usage examples of lilith.

Although pinned between an army to the north and a circle of Adepts to the south, there was little hope for Lilith.

Leaning over the little table, golden lights playing in her reddish hair, Lilith was listening as intently as if those queer asteroids were somehow as supremely important to her as they had become to me.

College Avenue the pedestrian traffic was heaviest: whiskered Phish in tie-dye and dreadlocks, Birkenstocked Liliths with their goateed lampreys.

All three Readers were there today, but two of the Adepts, Lilith and her son Ivorn, were in their own land.

Then spake young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom, of law of canons, of Lilith, patron of abortions, of bigness wrought by wind of seeds of brightness or by potency of vampires mouth to mouth or, as Virgilius saith, by the influence of the occident or by the reek of moonflower or an she lie with a woman which her man has but lain with, effectu secuto, or peradventure in her bath according to the opinions of Averroes and Moses Maimonides.

When she and Lora had reconciled, as they always did, Lilith had told her Davey was their vampiric Peter Pan.

With Julie and Lilith crowded into the seat beside him, he drove into town and up the crowded street to the old clapboarded hotel.

Well, it isn't enough that the children of Lilith, Adam's 'bad' wife, were born with donkey haunches or that Samson slew the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass or that Jesus chose to enter Jerusalem on the back of one of those scrawny steeds, but very early images of the Hebrew Messiah depicted him as an ass-headed man crucified on a tree.

It reminded him of that time when the blood hunters were gathering in the concrete jungle, massing for all-out carnage led by Lilith, Goddess of Darkness.

Also, besides the manuscripts, I have letters that offer revelations on the connections between Joan of Arc and the Sibylline Books, between Lilith the Talmudic demon and the hermaphroditic Great Mother, between the genetic code and the Martian alphabet, between the secret intelligence of plants, cosmology, psychoanalysis, and Marx and Nietzsche in the perspective of a new angelology, between the Golden Number and the Grand Canyon, Kant and occultism, the Eleusian mysteries and jazz, Cagliostro and atomic energy, homosexuality and gno-sis, the golem and the class struggle.

The intention was to spread mass hysteria which in turn would lead to anarchy, a fascist rule, and Lilith would then have achieved her aim.

It was a natural product of Lilith, it contained Warden organisms in its own molecules, and it was the natural complement to what I'd been told about how this all worked.

It is determined by the need to have Lilith support a nonindigenous human population, something she was simply not designed to do.

The Oankali modified me, Lilith told her, so that I can control the walls and the suspended animation plants.

They had pulled sweet cassava from the ground and dug up the yams Lilith had planted during her own training.