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Everyone makes incest jokes about Adam and Eve and their children but they never mention that there was another woman named Lilith (Adam's first wife) who would have added variance to the gene pool. (lemmy.world)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Because Lilith is not actually mentioned in the Christian bible despite this wiki page's attestation she is mentioned in Isaiah. She only appears in rabbitic literature.

Lilith is also the catalyst to a lot of vampire myths often described as the mother of all vampires.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I can't remember where I read this, but I remember reading that the inspiration for vampiric lore was rabies. Fear of water (vampires can't go over running water), fear of the sun, spread by biting...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

rabbitic

*snort*

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Never seen the word before. Immediately knew exactly what it meant due to context; but… yeah, funny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

And that's why we celebrate Easter with the Easter Bunny! /s