The history of all religions in the world, from the creation down to this present time in two parts : the first containing their theory, and the other relating to their practices ... : to which is added, a table of heresies : as also a geographical map, shewing in what countrey each religion is practised ... / by William Turner ...

Jews.

THE Rabbins have taught the Jews in Barbary, against the time of Child-birth, to draw Cir∣cles in the Chamber of the Woman with Child, and on the Doors within and without, and Walls, and about the Bed, inscribing every Circle with Adam, Chava, Chutz. Lilis; i. e. Adam, Eve, Be¦gone Lilis. Lilis was (as they say) Adam's first Wife, but disobedient and undutiful; and there∣fore was, upon her speaking the Most Holy Name, rapt up out of his sight, into the Air; and tho afterwards pursued by three Angels, who over∣took her at the Red Sea, she refused to return, pleading, That she was created in the same man∣ner as Adam was, and therefore she would not be Subject; but that she was to destroy the Male-Children for eight Days after the Birth, and Fe∣males for Twenty, The Angels finding in her a shrewd resistance, dismiss'd her on this condition, That she should spare those Infants, where she saw their Names written: And to this Time the Jews use to write the three Angels Names, in a Table or Parchment (Senei, Sanfenoi, Saumange∣loph,) and to hang them for Amulets, about the Children's Necks. The meaning of Adam, Eve, Chutz, Lilis, is, That if the Mother bring a Boy, God would not give him a scolding, undutiful

Wife, as Lilis was, but one like Eve. Doctor Addison.