Lilipath
- Lilliput: a fictional land of little people visited by Lemuel Gulliver in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels → Hilary is here identified with Jonathan Swift
- Lilith: a female demon in Mesopotamian mythology - see commentary below
- lily
- Lillie Langtry (1852-1929): Emily Charlotte Le Breton, Jersey-born actress; a clergyman’s daughter, she married Irish widower Edward Langtry (died 1897); she had a notorious affair with the Prince of Wales, and left her husband in 1881; she was a poor but successful actress (thanks to the Prince’s patronage); she married Sir Hugo Gerald de Bathe in 1899
Commentary
Lilith is a female Mesopotamian night demon believed to harm male children. In Isaiah 34:14, Lilith is a kind of night-demon or animal, translated as onokentauros; in the Septuagint, as lamia; "witch" by Hieronymus of Cardia; and as screech owl in the King James Version of the Bible. In the Talmud and Midrash, Lilith appears as a night demon. The idea of Lilith as the first wife of Adam arose in the Middle Ages.
The word "lilith" appears several times in the Talmud. In Tractate Niddah 24b it refers to a winged human, while in Erubin 100b it refers to something with long hair.
Erubin 18b says that after the expulsion from Eden, Adam was separated from Eve for 130 years, during which time the seed he wasted created "ghouls, demons and lilin" - i.e. in Talmudic tradition, not Lilith but Adam engendered the lilin, a connection that may be the origin of the later association of Lilith and Adam.
