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writings due prominence to the activities of Lilith; and he does 

 not neglect to give the necessary references to the literature of 

 his subject. He has written: The devils and evil spirits of Baby- 

 lonia, being Babylonian and Assyrian incantations, London, 1903- 

 1904, 2 V. ; Semitic magic, its origin and development, London, 

 1908; and the Assyro-Babylonian part of the composite article 

 " Demons and spirits " in James Hastings's Encyclopaedia of Re- 

 ligion and Ethics, v. 4, 1912. He is now engaged in writing a 

 book on Semitic mythology, which is to form v. 5 of " The My- 

 thology of all Races," now being published in Boston under the 

 editorship of Louis H. Gray. 



In connection with this it may be said that the above-mentioned 

 article in the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics relating to the 

 demonology of the various nations, written by several specialists, 

 and comprising over seventy quarto pages, contains a mass of 

 material too valuable to be overlooked by any student of the 

 subject.. 



2. Lilith among the Jews. 



This includes the study of the passage in the Book of Isaiah 

 XXXIV, 14, the numerous passages in the Talmud and the Mid- 

 rashim, the Kabbalah, the various superstitions, and especially 

 the amulets, that have survived to the present day. 



On the Jewish side the most prominent writer in this line is 

 the Hungarian scholar, Ludwig Blau. He is the Rector of the 

 Jewish Theological Seminary at Budapest, the president of the 

 folk-lore section of the Jewish-Hungarian Literary Society, and 

 the author of a German work on Jewish magic ("Das altjiidische 

 Zauberwesen," Strassburg, 1898). He has written the article 

 "Lilith" in the Jewish Encyclopaedia (v. 8, 1904) as well as the 

 cognate articles : " Abraxas," " Amulets," " Augury," " Death, 

 Angel of," "Exorcism," "Incantation," "Liver," "Magic," 

 " Metatron," " Necromancy," " Samael," " Sandalfon," " Sa- 

 tan," and " Shi'ur Komah." (Compare also the following ar- 

 ticles, written by other writers in the same work : " Asmodeus," 

 "Azazel," " Bibliomancy," "Childbirth," "Demonology," "Div- 

 ination," "Folklore," "Superstition," and "Witchcraft.") Com- 

 pare Joseph Jacobs's " The Jewish Encyclopedia : a guide to its 



