'Monstrous' Women: Lilith, Lamia, and the Making of the Vampire Myth
Welcome, my devilish fiends!
Join me as we trace the roots of the vampire back to the women who came before her: Lamia, Lilith, and the succubi.
These "monstrous" figures haunted ancient myth and medieval imagination, embodying male fears of female power, pleasure, and autonomy. Long before Dracula, they turned desire into danger and defiance into sin. Their stories reveal how myth and theology worked together to make women's power appear monstrous and how those same fears still shape the vampire we know today.
So, close your doors and windows, turn off the lights, get cozy, and join me...
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Sources & References:
Epic of Gilgamesh โ references to lilฤซtu demons.
The Alphabet of Ben Sira.
The Zohar (Book of Splendor).
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana.
Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum.
King James VI of Scotland, Daemonologie.
John Keats, Lamia.
Sarah Iles Johnston, Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece (University of California Press, 1999).
Daniel Ogden, Drakลn: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Judith Plaskow, The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972โ2003 (Beacon Press, 2005).
Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah (Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1974).
Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess (Wayne State University Press, 1990).
Jeffrey Burton Russell, Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 1972).
Deborah Lyons, Dangerous Gifts: Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece (Princeton University Press, 1997).
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Dictionary of Women in Religious Art (Oxford University Press, 1996).
Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves (University of Chicago Press, 1995).
Paul Barber, Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality (Yale University Press, 1988).
Barbara Creed, The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1993).
Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995).
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