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Browsing Wikipedia for random bits of information, I came across this paragraph in the article on Baldr, son of Odin. I'm not going to post the whole paragraph, as it's somewhat long.



Following a double-take on my part. Where did this come from? I promptly browsed other articles relating to Cain and Lilith specifically, and could not find any details on this particular detail. There were some bits linking Cain and Lilith, but there was nothing of the sort where the scenario was Lilith tricking Cain. But anyway. I know that Wikipedia has a lot of fuzzy little inaccurate bits of information, and this may just be one of them.

But I'm still curious. I was wondering if any experts on this sort of thing, either blood magick, as the paragraph suggests, or just someone who knows where to find the origin of this story. It may just not exist, so feel free to post your thoughts on the paragraph mentioned above, and the topics it relates to, even if they're not concerned with Cain and Lilith.

Well, probably that Lilith is the origin of blood magick, as well as all the demon s**t she's responsible for, and it also means the death of Abel was not just vengence on a sacrifice, but something much more, with a magick and spell effect that we can only guess at the conseqences of.

However, Lilith, queen of demons and blood magick? She's hot. I'd hit it.

You've been added to the honor list 3nodding

It sounds like if this is a myth at all, it's probably a more modern construct of a myth. I have a hard time relating to stuff about lilitth because I've never known her as a demon. In fact, some Jewish Pagans worship her as their goddess.

However, the nation of Israel was also heavily influenced by the greeks, where their god are much more prone to trickery and the like. Therefore it is also quite possible that this is a jewish myth influenced by the greeks. (The Jews didn't have a holy text until after the assyrians kicked them out of Israel, so there is the potential for a lot of myths being passed around verbally. In addition to this, the Gentiles took on parts of other religions, so the myth could even come out of the Gentiles during that time period.)

I don't know, it's something to think about. Just because google doesn't have something on it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. it just means not very many people are talking about it. If I were really interested in this, my next stop would be a big public library with a good section on mythology and religion.

I've never read nor heard (until now) anything about Lilith tricking Cain into killing Abel. The story as I know it always involved Lilith not submitting to Adam, being cast out of Eden, then later on after Cain kills Abel, Cain gets exiled from Eden. Cain settles in a region called "Nod" and that's where he meets up with Lilith.

So in my limited research into the subject I've never seen any mention of Lilith being the catalyst for Abel's murder, nor anything relating to the origin of blood magic.

I believe it is, Cain happened to be the first vampire, and the story is quite popular in WoD, it could be that a fan who knew nothing of the real story of Lilith put that on there. after all, it IS wikipedia.

This sounds interesting...I shall look into it.But all I know is-

Blood magik is really dangerous(I think)
Lilith is an angle.(Thank you Evangelion for telling me that!Yay anime...)

Hey, it's a good game. Well, not Vampire strictly. I mean World of Darkness roleplaying games as a rule.