Lilith is the pre-eminent female demon of Jewish myth. Her name appears once in the Hebrew Bible among the desolate creatures of Edom, and she recurs in the Talmud as a long-haired, winged night-spirit who endangers men sleeping alone. The medieval Alphabet of Ben Sira gives her fullest legend: created from the earth as Adam's first wife, she refused to lie beneath him, pronounced the ineffable Name, and flew to the Red Sea; when angels pursued her she vowed to strangle newborns except where their protective names were displayed. The Zohar and later Kabbalah make her queen of the demonic 'other side' and consort of Samael, a dark mirror of the divine feminine. Sources differ over whether she is one being or two, an elder and a younger Lilith.