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Lilith

by Ada Langworthy Collier

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
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"Lilith: The legend of the first woman" by Ada Langworthy Collier is a narrative poem published in 1885. This five-book work reimagines the ancient rabbinical legend of Lilith, Adam's first wife who was cast from Eden. Created as Adam's equal, Lilith refuses to submit to his dominance and leaves Paradise. She weds Eblis, prince of devils, but finds her demonic children offer no maternal comfort. When Lilith discovers Eve nursing her child, jealousy drives her to a fateful act that forever links her name to mothers' lullabies. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and project-gutenberg matched “folklore”, “Mythology”, and “mythology”. Retained metadata contains “legend” in the description and “Mythology” in the subject metadata.

    • “Mythology”· via Open Library
    • “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “legend”· in description
    • “Mythology”· in subject

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2008-02-23Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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openlibrary-work:OL250744W
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