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and the cats were thus destroyed. But after the ark had been at 

 sea a few weeks the rats and mice began to eat the grain, and 

 Noah prayed for help, when the Lord caused the Hon, which lay 

 sick with a fever, to sneeze from out its nostrils a pair of cats, 

 which soon destroyed the rodents, thus making them the most 

 popular animals aboard the ship. 



"Furthermore, when they landed on Mount Ararat and started 

 with the other animals to travel to the Plains of Shihar the cats 

 were given the head of the procession, and when they arrived 

 there, and the people were building the Tower of Babel and the 

 Lord confused their tongues, the voice of the cat, which hereto- 

 fore had been sweet and melodious, was changed into its present 

 raucous caterwauling." 



A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LILITH. 



By a. S. Freidus, New York Public Library. 



Long before Lilith entered the field of Jewish folk-lore she 

 was a prominent figure in Assyro-Babylonian demonology. The 

 etymology of the name given in the Encyclopaedia Britannica: 

 " Hebrew, lilatu, night " should have " Assyrian " substituted for 

 " Hebrew." 



In order adequately to follow Lilith's long career through the 

 ages, from the dawn of religious belief to the present day, the 

 following three principal lines of study suggest themselves : 



1. Lilith in Babylonia, her home-land. 



2. Lilith among the Jews. 



3. Lilith in modern literature. 



I. The Original Lilith of Babylonia. 

 To acquaint oneself with the role played by Lilith in ancient 

 Babylonia, one should turn to the works of Reginald Campbell 

 Thompson, formerly assistant professor of Semitic lagnuages at 

 the University of Chicago, now residing at Oxford, England. 

 Although a comparatively young man, he is the most prominent 

 writer on the demonology of the Babylonians ; he gives in his 



