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  2. Golem - Wikipedia

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    The clay golem is based on the golem of Medieval Jewish folklore, though changed from "a cherished defender to an unthinking hulk". [ 61 ] [ 62 ] The flesh golem is related to Frankenstein's monster as Universal 's 1931 film , seen in e.g. being empowered by electricity, [ 63 ] though again with the difference of being essentially an unthinking ...

  3. Creation of life from clay - Wikipedia

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    Creation of Adam from a block of clay in the Great Canterbury Psalter. Khnum (right) is a creator god who forms humans and gods out of clay. Here Isis (left) gives life. The creation of life from clay can be seen as a miraculous birth theme that appears throughout world religions and mythologies. It can also be seen as one of gods who craft ...

  4. Category:Jewish legendary creatures - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Jewish legendary creatures" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 18:44 ...

  5. Jewish folklore - Wikipedia

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    Jewish folklore. 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.

  6. Jewish mythology - Wikipedia

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    e. 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] Christian mythology directly inherited many of the narratives from the Jewish people, sharing in common the narratives from ...

  7. Jewish mysticism - Wikipedia

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    Jewish mysticism. Academic study of Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem 's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), draws distinctions between different forms of mysticism which were practiced in different eras of Jewish history. Of these, Kabbalah, which emerged in 12th-century southwestern Europe, is the most well known, but it ...

  8. Adnei haSadeh - Wikipedia

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    The word adnei is a variation of admei, i.e. "men of", while hasadeh ("the field") can be used figuratively to refer to wildness, so the entire name adnei hasadeh can be translated as "wild men". [ 2 ] In some texts the name is spelled avnei hasadeh, following an expression in Job 5:24 which seems to mean "wild animals".

  9. Gollum - Wikipedia

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    The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955) Unfinished Tales (1980) Gollum is a monster [ 2 ] with a distinctive style of speech in J. R. R. Tolkien 's fantasy world of Middle-earth. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became important in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit [ T 1 ][ T 2 ] of the River ...