Adne Sadeh: Jewish monster hunterさんのイラストまとめ

My father died yesterday with me on the phone listening to his breathing stop. So let me tell a story. Rabbi Akiva was walking through a cemetery & saw a naked man, burnt dark as charcoal, carrying wood & hurrying. The story ends with the founding of the mourners kaddish. A 🧵

Ornias the Incubus. A 🧵. Ornias enters Jewish monster lore via the Testament of Solomon, drinking blood from the thumb of Solomon's master builder's son. Ornais is a seducer of young men and young women, changing shape and switching genders as necessary.

Sefer Hasidim: Why did the Holy One arrange that ravens would feed Elijah? Because a raven taught Adam & Eve to bury Abel by scratching in the dirt to bury it's own dead. Because Adam & Eve had left the garden, they couldn't understand the raven's language, only its gestures.