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The Bible Actually Names Lilith. Sort Of.

One obscure word in Isaiah has spent more than two thousand years becoming an owl, a monster, a demon and eventually Adam's allegedly troublesome first wife.

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According to the Talmud, You Are Surrounded by Thousands of Demons

The strange part is not that the Talmud mentions demons. The strange part is how casually it starts doing arithmetic with them.

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The 72 Virgins Are Not in the Qur'an. The Transparent Women Are Somewhere Else.

Islamic descriptions of Paradise are stranger than the meme, but the internet has helpfully mixed several different texts into one giant theological smoothie.

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Jinn Are Not Genies. The Qur'an Says They Were Made From Smokeless Fire.

Somewhere between Islamic cosmology and Disney, an entire category of supernatural beings became a blue man offering three wishes.

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Vodou Possession Is Not Considered a Horror-Movie Accident

In Haitian Vodou, possession can be the point of the ceremony rather than the emergency requiring an exorcist.

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Genesis Gives Us Four Verses and Thousands of Years of Nephilim Arguments

The Bible mentions the sons of God, human women and the Nephilim immediately before the Flood. Then it refuses to explain itself properly.

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Ezekiel's Wheels Are Weird Enough Without Turning Them Into UFOs

Wheels inside wheels, covered in eyes, moving without turning and rising from the ground. Ancient-astronaut television did not invent the description.

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The Bible Literally Calls One Place "The Gate of Heaven"

Long before science fiction gave us stargates, Genesis described angels moving between Earth and heaven above a place Jacob believed was a gateway between realms.

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