34:15 there she-shall-nest the great-owl, and she-lays-(eggs), and she-hatches, and she-gathers under her-shadow: Tablet XII is not part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, but is a later Assyrian Akkadian translation of the latter part of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. God sent three angels after Lilith named Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof, who demanded that she return. Faust: All rights reserved The National Library of Israel 2017 , The sages of Safed created amulets, the Jews of Italy wrote prayers and other Jews warned of less conventional plagues. 19. In the 10th century text known as the Alphabet of ben Sirah, we find the story of Adam and Lilith. Since the most common Jewish amulets known to us are those designed to protect women giving birth, we can safely assume that the three angels who appear on these types of charms are among the most common figures associated with the Hebrew amulet. A plague of non-kosher meat, from the British Mandate period. Both of them were born at the same hour in the image of Adam and Eve, intertwined in each other. His main partner is his wife, Lilith. These two aspects of the Lilith legend seemed to have evolved separately; there is hardly a tale where she encompasses both roles. This is the earliest Jewish amulet to appear in print. Draws men to watch the bright web she can weave, She is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud (Eruvin 100b, Niddah 24b, Shabbat 151b, Baba Bathra 73a), in the Book of Adam and Eve as Adam's first wife, and in the Zohar Leviticus 19a as "a hot fiery female who first cohabited with man". 'Return to Adam without delay,' the angels said, `or we will drown you!' The last manuscript which we will present also hails from 19th century Italy. God sent three angels, named Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, who found her in the Red Sea. Lilith? Lilith's soul was lodged in the depths of the Great Abyss. But she swore to them by the name of the living and eternal God: "Whenever I see you or your names or your forms in an amulet, I will have no power over that infant." This edition was published in 1855 in the city of Lemberg, todays Lviv, in western Ukraine. After a while, Lilith returned to the Garden of Eden but found that Adam had another partner, Eve. According to the legend, if she can't destroy or claim the human infant, because of the angelic amulet, she may spitefully turn against her own children, the Lilim, in a fit of rage. [7], The Septuagint translates both the reference to Lilith and the word for jackals or "wild beasts of the island" within the same verse into Greek as onokentauros, apparently assuming them as referring to the same creatures and omitting "wildcats/wild beasts of the desert" (so, instead of the wildcats or desert beasts meeting with the jackals or island beasts, the goat or "satyr" crying "to his fellow" and lilith or "screech owl" resting "there", it is the goat or "satyr", translated as daimonia "demons", and the jackals or island beasts "onocentaurs" meeting with each other and crying "one to the other" and the latter resting there in the translation). In Hebrew-language texts, the term lilith or lilit (translated as "night creatures", "night monster", "night hag", or "screech owl") first occurs in a list of animals in Isaiah 34. The angels were able, however, to extract a vow that Lilith would not harm the offspring of Adam and his second wife, Eve. amulet and asked "Who are these?" Ben Sira answered, "The angels who are in charge of medicine: Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof." [In English: Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof.] The issue of these unions were demons and spirits called "the plagues of humankind", and the usual added explanation was that it was through Adam's own sin that Lilith overcame him against his will. Samael Aun Weor in The Pistis Sophia Unveiled writes that homosexuals are the "henchmen of Lilith". [84] Lamia had a vicious sexual appetite that matched her cannibalistic appetite for children. Many of the traditional characteristics of Lilith mythology are present in the author's depiction: Long dark hair, pale skin, a hatred and fear of children and babies, and an obsession with gazing at herself in a mirror. These amulets are mentioned in the Ben Sirah, and in fact, the story probably exists to give a more religious justification for the otherwise pretty superstition-and-magic . Out, Lilithl' Also the names Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof (meanings uncertain) were inscribed on the door. The quest for a proven, functioning magical amulet, one whose supernatural powers can be trusted with certainty, has led buyers to prefer amulets ordained with fixed and familiar mystic formulas. By that point, she had already slept with Samael, chief among the demons, and vowed that she would not harm the human offspring of Adam and Eve if they wrote her name on a protective amulet during childbirth. The Krasmesser would be used by a midwife or by the husband to draw a magic circle around the pregnant or birthing woman to protect her from Lilith and the evil eye, which were considered to represent the greatest danger for children and pregnant women. The text begins with the words (I have placed the Lord before me constantly), followed immediately by Psalm 91, in which the speaker tells of the refuge provided by the wings of the Lord, while also citing the various evils from which he is protected, including devastating pestilence ( ). Her gates are gates of death, and from the entrance of the house Third, and despite the terseness of the biblical text in this regard, the erotic iniquities attributed to Eve constitute a separate category of her shortcomings. And, subtly of herself contemplative, she said. First and foremost, the very introduction of Lilith to the creation story rests on the rabbinic myth, prompted by the two separate creation accounts in Genesis 1:12:25, that there were two original women. The poem and the picture appeared together alongside Rossetti's painting Sibylla Palmifera and the sonnet Soul's Beauty. First published in 1883, the poem uses the traditional myths surrounding the triad of Adam, Eve, and Lilith. The Victorian poet Robert Browning re-envisioned Lilith in his poem "Adam, Lilith, and Eve". And all this ruination came about because Adam the first man coupled with Eve while she was in her menstrual impurity this is the filth and the impure seed of the Serpent who mounted Eve before Adam mounted her. The plague of archaeology, a pashkevil from 1980, Another pashkevil, seen here below, which dates to the period of the British Mandate, warns of the plague of eating and selling non-kosher meat, which had broken out among the Jewish community. Whence it comes that the Jews are accustomed to write in the four corners of the chamber of a woman just delivered, "Adam, Eve, be gone from hence lilith." A bowl with a Jewish Babylonian Aramaic inscription, The National Library collections, In Christian versions of similar amulets, the assisting forces are saints. [64] The second myth of Lilith grew to include legends about another world and by some accounts this other world existed side by side with this one, Yenne Velt is Yiddish for this described "Other World". The Alphabet text places Lilith's creation after God's words in Genesis 2:18 that "it is not good for man to be alone"; in this text God forms Lilith out of the clay from which he made Adam but she and Adam bicker. Some uses of lltu are listed in the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD, 1956, L.190), in Wolfram von Soden's Akkadisches Handwrterbuch (AHw, p.553), and Reallexikon der Assyriologie (RLA, p. The figure is often depicted with arms and legs chained, indicating the control of the family over the demon(ess). These talismans invoke the names of the angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, or sometimes the prophet Elijah, in order to protect young children from the grasp of Lilith. According to Rapahel Patai, older sources state clearly that after Lilith's Red Sea sojourn (mentioned also in Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews), she returned to Adam and begat children from him by forcing herself upon him. A thousand years later, the residents of the land were still dealing with fairly frequent outbreaks. [40][41], et occurrent daemonia onocentauris et pilosus clamabit alter ad alterum ibi cubavit lamia et invenit sibi requiem. She shall become an abode for jackals and a haunt for ostriches. The first occurrence of plague in the recorded history of the Middle East was known as the Plague of Justinian, named after the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I. The Matron Lilith is the mate of Samael. He is considered to be the wicked Esaus demonic master, and in Talmudic literature most of his evil deeds involve attempts to undermine the righteous. Gilgamesh is said to have killed the snake, and then the zu bird flew away to the mountains with its young, while the ki-sikil-lil-la-ke fearfully destroys its house and runs for the forest. Who is that?Mephistopheles: The female side was Lilith, whereupon she flew to the Cities of the Sea and attacked humankind. Since the end of the Talmudic period, Samael has often been portrayed as the source of all evil; his agents charged with defeating the cause of good and righteousness. Lilit would seek revenge on the family by killing the children born to the husband and wife. The angels very names Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof are seen as safeguards against Liliths actions. Concerning this point there is a received tradition from the ancient Sages who made use of the Secret Knowledge of the Lesser Palaces, which is the manipulation of demons and a ladder by which one ascends to the prophetic levels. (Babylonian Talmud, tractate Bava Bathra 73a-b). 47). This amulet was written on parchment. To avert danger, it was held wise to strike the sleeping child's lips with one finger-whereupon Lilith would vanish. Tags. [22][23] Identification of the ki-sikil-lil-la-ke as Lilith is stated in the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (1999). A similar version, related to the earlier Talmudic passages, recounts how Lilith was fashioned with the same substance as Adam was, shortly before. However, they are defeated by Methuselah, who slays thousands of them with a holy sword and forces Agrimas to give him the names of the rest, after which he casts them away to the sea and the mountains.[68]. Like other manuscripts of its kind, it draws a link between observance of the laws handed down to Moses at Mount Sinai and the health of the individual and the community. -------------------------------- Senoy became Saint Sisoe, Sansenoy became Sisynios and Semangelof appears as Synidores. Occasionally, a piece of paper with magic spells writ-ten on it was hung by the child's bed. When Lilith winds it tight around young men Accompanying his Lady Lilith painting from 1866, Rossetti wrote a sonnet entitled Lilith, which was first published in Swinburne's pamphlet-review (1868), Notes on the Royal Academy Exhibition. This light became hidden and the Holiness became surrounded by a husk of evil. [86], The occult writer Ahmad al-Buni (d. 1225), in his Sun of the Great Knowledge (Arabic: ), mentions a demon called "the mother of children" ( ), a term also used "in one place". Another passage charges Lilith as being a tempting serpent of Eve. Adam complained to God: "I have been deserted by my helpmeet." God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. The mystical writing of two brothers Jacob and Isaac Hacohen, Treatise on the Left Emanation, which predates the Zohar by a few decades, states that Samael and Lilith are in the shape of an androgynous being, double-faced, born out of the emanation of the Throne of Glory and corresponding in the spiritual realm to Adam and Eve, who were likewise born as a hermaphrodite. I,74.1. [94][95], Gerald Gardner asserted that there was continuous historical worship of Lilith to present day, and that her name is sometimes given to the goddess being personified in the coven by the priestess. The results were documented in detail by the emperors court historian. https://blog.nli.org.il/en/djm_sen-san-sem/, The figures of Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof appear here from right to left, 2020 . [53] Almost every house was found to have such protective bowls against demons and demonesses. Jewish magical inscriptions on bowls and amulets from the 6th century AD onward identify Lilith as a female demon and provide the first visual depictions of her. Deciphering Jewish Manuscripts . [citation needed] However, the idea that Lilith was the predecessor may be exclusive to the Alphabet. However, nowhere do the rabbis specify what happened to the first woman, leaving the matter open for further speculation. A number of the poems feature Lilith directly, including the piece Unwritten which deals with the spiritual problem of the feminine being removed by the scribes from The Bible. The subsequent creation is performed with adequate precautions: Adam is made to sleep, so as not to witness the process itself (Sanhedrin 39a), and Eve is adorned with fine jewellery (Genesis rabbah 18:1) and brought to Adam by the angels Gabriel and Michael (ibid. They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons, to whom she bore 'lilim' at the rate of more than one hundred a day. The background and purpose of The Alphabet of Ben-Sira is unclear. Who's that there?Mephistopheles: A blank space is left for the name of the mother. Such stories are commonly found among Jewish folklore.[64]. [102], The western mystery tradition associates Lilith with the Qliphoth of kabbalah. he said, "the woman you gave me has run away." After ten years of growth, she comes to harvest it and finds a serpent living at its base, a Zu bird raising young in its crown, and that a ki-sikil-lil-la-ke made a house in its trunk. [5] Many traditional rabbinic authorities, including Maimonides and Menachem Meiri, reject the existence of Lilith. Two apples swayed upon a stem, 16, 1965, p. 1-13, The Black Suitcase of Magical Amulets with a Mysterious History. Tractate Niddah in the Mishnah is the only tractate from the Order of Tohorot which has Talmud on it. Up to medieval times, Jewish people often kept amulets to . Their names are Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof. Lady [Lilith] represents a Modern Lilith combing out her abundant golden hair and gazing on herself in the glass with that self-absorption by whose strange fascination such natures draw others within their own circle. Kabbalistic mysticism attempted to establish a more exact relationship between Lilith and God. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one." The Treatise on the Left Emanation also says that there are two Liliths, the lesser being married to the great demon Asmodeus. [92], Lilith is a poem by Vladimir Nabokov, written in 1928. The Black Suitcase of Magical Amulets with a Mysterious History. When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air. We found the amulet below in a copy of the book Shaar HaYichudim (The Gate of Unifications) by the famous Safed Kabbalist Hayyim ben Joseph Vital. The ancient Greeks knew these dangerous sorceresses by the name of lamiae, and they believed that they devoured children, or sucked away all their blood till they died. This monstrous couple was apparently first brought together in the 13th century, their combined powers allowing them to rule the realm of impurity. ), Ribichini, S. (1976) "Lilith nell-albero Huluppu", pp. The three angels' names, Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof, were written on the entrance door. It would become evident that the child was not fathered by the husband, and the child would be looked down on. With denial of inferiority She rose into the air Spoke the magic word And fled to the Red Sea. [36][37], Eberhard Schrader (1875)[38] and Moritz Abraham Levy (1855)[39] suggest that Lilith was a demon of the night, known also by the Jewish exiles in Babylon. 151b; b. Baba Bathra 73ab, Kabbalist References: Zohar 3:76b77a; Zohar Sitrei Torah 1:147b148b; Zohar 2:267b; Bacharach,'Emeq haMelekh, 19c; Zohar 3:19a; Bacharach,'Emeq haMelekh, 102d103a; Zohar 1:54b55a, Dead Sea Scroll References: 4QSongs of the Sage/4QShir; 4Q510 frag.11.46a//frag.10.1f; 11QPsAp, Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants, "Finding Lilith: The Most Powerful Hag In History", Collection of Lilith information and links, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lilith&oldid=1139992560, (the) night-demon Lilith, evil and rapacious (, "[Expounding upon the curses of womanhood] In a, "For gira he should take an arrow of Lilith and place it point upwards and pour water on it and drink it. There is also a threatening vocal motif involved, emanating from the onomatopoeic sound of the names said together, which resembles sounds found in nature, like the hiss of a snake or the crackle of fire. Folkloric traditions recorded around 1953 tell about a jinn called Qarinah, who was rejected by Adam and mated with Iblis instead. 34:14 "And shall-meet wildcats[35] with jackals Said the Holy One to Adam, 'If she agrees to come back, what is made is good. Lilith believed she could leave her husband, and as he refused to accept this decree of equality in their sex life apparently meaning that Lilith wished to be on top of her husband during intercourse, she fled from him and escaped.. gone , were inscribed. [76], The Zohar adds further that two female spirits instead of one, Lilith and Naamah, desired Adam and seduced him. This passage may be related to the mention of Lilith in Talmud Shabbath 151b (see above), and also to Talmud Eruvin 18b where nocturnal emissions are connected with the begettal of demons. In 1881, the Lilith sonnet was renamed "Body's Beauty" in order to contrast it and Soul's Beauty. The figures of Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof appear here from right to left The quest for a proven, functioning magical amulet, one whose supernatural powers can be trusted with certainty, has led buyers to prefer amulets ordained with fixed and familiar mystic formulas. Although in the medieval Hebrew literature and folklore, especially that reflected on the protective amulets of various kinds, Chavvah ha-Rishonah was identified with Lilith, one should remain careful in transposing this equation to the Late Antiquity.[49]. An amulet attributed to Isaac Luria, "The Holy ARI", 1855 The first occurrence of plague in the recorded history of the Middle East was known as the "Plague of Justinian", named after the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I. [82], Rabbi Naphtali Hirsch ben Elieser Treves described this custom as early as 1560, and later references to a knife or sword by the birthing bed by both Paul Christian Kirchner and Johann Christian Georg Bodenschatz indicate its continuance. [65] Her creation is described in many alternative versions. (c. 10th century), which was followed by the Zohar and other Kabbalistic writings. The sound warns Lilith and gives her pause, making clear that she should not approach the mother and her newborn children. After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, 'It is not good for man to be alone' (Genesis 2:18). Hebrew: , -, - ; - , , u-pagu iyyim et-iyyim, w-sair al-rhu yiqra; ak-am hirgia lilit, u-maa lah manoa. [49] Moses said: [God,] do not do it [i.e. [a] The legend of Lilith developed extensively during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadah, the Zohar, and Jewish mysticism. (image), The pseudepigraphical[58] 8th10th centuries Alphabet of Ben Sira is considered to be the oldest form of the story of Lilith as Adam's first wife. The angels said, "We shall drown you in the sea. In the Latin Vulgate Book of Isaiah 34:14, Lilith is translated lamia. In 1980, this Pashkevil poster warning of the plague of archaeology spreading throughout the Holy Land was printed and hung up in various ultra-orthodox communities. Moss. [Here is] your divorce and writ and letter of separation, sent through holy angels. [52], The correctly worded incantation bowl was capable of warding off Lilith or Lilit from the household. The Akkadian word lilu is related to the Hebrew word lilith in Isaiah 34:14, which is thought to be a night bird by some modern scholars such as Judit M. If not, she must permit one hundred of her children to die every day." [84], In Mandaean scriptures such as the Ginza Rabba and Qolasta, liliths (Classical Mandaic: ) are mentioned as inhabitants of the World of Darkness. The angels who were sent to return the woman to her husband were Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof. Lo! However, Lilith would become hateful toward the children born of the husband and wife and would seek to kill them. The demon(ess) is depicted in a frontal position with the whole face showing. At this point, the three angels enter the picture. Mller-Kessler, C. (2002) "A Charm against Demons of Time", in C. Wunsch (ed. Lilith responded, "We are equal to each other inasmuch as we were both created from the earth." (17) It is He who casts the lot for them, and with His hands He marks off their shares of her; They shall possess her forever, and dwell there from generation to generation. In the Dead Sea Scrolls, among the 19 fragments of Isaiah found at Qumran, the Great Isaiah Scroll (1Q1Isa) in 34:14 renders the creature as plural liliyyot (or liliyyoth). I thought, 'If, despite this lie, he strips Ben Sira is presented as the son of Jeremiah, born to the prophet's own daughter who dipped in a mikveh into which Jeremiah was previously forced to lay seed. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which developed around 1848,[89] were greatly influenced by Goethe's work on the theme of Lilith. Scottish author George MacDonald also wrote a fantasy novel entitled Lilith, first published in 1895. Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof (sometimes written Semangelof, or Snvi, Snsnvi and Smnglof) are three guarding angels in Jewish mythology. Lilith does not occur in the Mishnah. Isaac Luria perished during an outbreak of plague in the year 1572, when he was only 38 years old. Once they saddled for him two mules which stood on two bridges of the Rognag; and he jumped from one to the other, backward and forward, holding in his hands two cups of wine, pouring alternately from one to the other, and not a drop fell to the ground." However, she was "cursed" to never be able to shut her eyes so that she would forever obsess over her dead children. Commentators and interpreters often envision the figure of Lilith as a dangerous demon of the night, who is sexually wanton, and who steals babies in the darkness. Her beauty's one boast is her dangerous hair. In the Dead Sea Scrolls 4Q510-511, the term first occurs in a list of monsters. Major sources in Jewish tradition regarding Lilith in chronological order include: The Dead Sea Scrolls contain one indisputable reference to Lilith in Songs of the Sage (4Q510511)[42] fragment 1: And I, the Instructor, proclaim His glorious splendour so as to frighten and to te[rrify] all the spirits of the destroying angels, spirits of the bastards, demons, Lilith, howlers, and [desert dwellers] and those which fall upon men without warning to lead them astray from a spirit of understanding and to make their heart and their desolate during the present dominion of wickedness and predetermined time of humiliations for the sons of lig[ht], by the guilt of the ages of [those] smitten by iniquity not for eternal destruction, [bu]t for an era of humiliation for transgression.[43]. They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons, to whom she bore 'lilim' at the rate of more than one hundred a day. (CD-ROM). The common wisdom in Jerusalem of the period spoke of a new wave of pestilence hitting the city every six or seven years. It is preserved today in the British Library in London. "Printed sheet, late 17th century or early 18th century, 185x130 mm. However, God drove them off. Faust: [dancing with the young witch] Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof are featured in this amulet (from the Bill Gross Collection) that safeguards a newborn child and its mother with an incantation against Lilith. 25 in, Davis, Michael T.; Strawn, Brent A. ~Ari'el Share As with the Massoretic text of Isaiah 34:14, and therefore unlike the plural liliyyot (or liliyyoth) in the Isaiah scroll 34:14, lilit in 4Q510 is singular, this liturgical text both cautions against the presence of supernatural malevolence and assumes familiarity with Lilith; distinct from the biblical text, however, this passage does not function under any socio-political agenda, but instead serves in the same capacity as An Exorcism (4Q560) and Songs to Disperse Demons (11Q11). A third alternative version states that God originally created Adam and Lilith in a manner that the female creature was contained in the male. The condition was that Lilith promised that she would not touch any child that had an amulet inscribed with the angels' names. She was notorious for being a vampiric spirit and loved sucking men's blood. [12] For example, in the 13th-century writings of Isaac ben Jacob ha-Cohen, Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she had coupled with the archangel Samael. He then separates from holy Eve, sleeps alone, and fasts for 130 years. And her enchanted hair was the first gold. The word itself in turn seems to be a distortion of, "R. Hanina said: One may not sleep in a house alone [in a lonely house], and whoever sleeps in a house alone is seized by Lilith." Scholars tend to date the Alphabet between the 8th and 10th centuries AD. If a child laughed while sleeping, it was taken as a sign that Lilith was present. Found in the wild waters The message was delivered She declined their offer Thus refused to return. On the other three pages of the bifolium is a list of Torah and Prophets readings. They told her God's word, but she did not wish to return. The work has been characterized by some scholars as satirical, but Ginzberg concluded it was meant seriously.[59]. Sansenoy, and Semange- lof on amulets hung around the necks of new-born babes: when Lilith sees the names, she remembers her oath and leaves the child . . Angelic FoeOppressed By the Heavens PrikosnovenieReleased on: 2013-04-30Author: Angelic FoeCom. [84] One source states simply that she is a daughter of the goddess Hecate, another, that Lamia was subsequently cursed by the goddess Hera to have stillborn children because of her association with Zeus; alternatively, Hera slew all of Lamia's children (except Scylla) in anger that Lamia slept with her husband, Zeus. Joseph M. Baumgarten (1991) identified the unnamed woman of The Seductress (4Q184) as related to the female demon. The figures of Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof appear here from right to left The quest for a proven, functioning magical amulet, one whose supernatural powers can be trusted with certainty, has led buyers to prefer amulets ordained with fixed and familiar mystic formulas. In 1863, Dante Gabriel Rossetti of the Brotherhood began painting what would later be his first rendition of Lady Lilith, a painting he expected to be his "best picture hitherto". The second mention of Lilith, this time explicit, is present in Numbers Rabbah 16:25. When Lilith refused to return to Adam, God punished her by causing 100 of her children to die each day. In this case Asmodeus and Lilith were believed to procreate demonic offspring endlessly and spread chaos at every turn. Browning depicts Lilith and Eve as being friendly and complicitous with each other, as they sit together on either side of Adam. This is the account of Lilith which was received by the Sages in the Secret Knowledge of the Palaces.[67]. the goat he-calls his- fellowlilit (lilith) she-rests and she-finds rest[d] amulet and asked "Who are these?" Ben Sira answered, "The angels who are in charge of medicine: Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof." [In English: Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof.] The word lilit (or lilith) only appears once in the Hebrew Bible, in a prophecy regarding the fate of Edom,[3] while the other seven terms in the list appear more than once and thus are better documented. Likewise, women who undergo wilful abortion, and those who support this practice are "seen in the sphere of Lilith". Many have connected it to Lolita, but Nabokov adamantly denies this: "Intelligent readers will abstain from examining this impersonal fantasy for any links with my later fiction. 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