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  2. Jewish folklore - Wikipedia

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    Jewish folklore are legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of Judaism. Folktales are characterized by the presence of unusual personages, by the sudden transformation of men into beasts and vice versa, or by other unnatural incidents.

  3. Jewish mythology - Wikipedia

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    Jewish mythology is the body of myths associated with Judaism. Elements of Jewish mythology have had a profound influence on Christian mythology and on Islamic mythology , as well as on Abrahamic culture in general. [ 1 ]

  4. Category:Jewish legendary creatures - Wikipedia

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    Legendary creatures from Judaism, specifically from Jewish mythology. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. A.

  5. Category:Jewish folklore - Wikipedia

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    Jewish mythology (12 C, 23 P) Y. Yiddish-language folklore (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Jewish folklore" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.

  6. Category:Jewish mythology - Wikipedia

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    Jewish mythology is a major literary element of the body of folklore found in the sacred texts and in traditional narratives that help explain and symbolize Jewish culture and Judaism. Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.

  7. Dov Noy - Wikipedia

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    This work was later included into Thompson's six-volume Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, [4] "greatly raising the status of Jewish folklore in the field". [3] Noy was the first folklorist who applied the Aarne-Thompson classification to Jewish folklore. [5] Thompson called Noy "one of the most brilliant disciples I have ever had". [6]

  8. Legends of the Jews - Wikipedia

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    The Legends of the Jews is a chronological compilation of aggadah from hundreds of biblical legends in Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash.The compilation consists of seven volumes (four volumes of narrative texts and two volumes of footnotes with a volume of index) synthesized by Louis Ginzberg in a manuscript written in the German language.

  9. Shedim - Wikipedia

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    Shedim (Hebrew: שֵׁדִים šēḏīm; singular: שֵׁד šēḏ) [3] are spirits or demons in the Tanakh and Jewish mythology. Shedim do not, however, correspond exactly to the modern conception of demons as evil entities as originated in Christianity. [4]