These in-progress scenes are elements of an animation on the character of Lilith, a Mesopotamian demon who haunts Jewish folklore, and who, by the 1500s, is present enough in the zeitgeist to be depicted on the Sistine chapel, curving up the tree of knowledge with a serpentine body and a female head. In the Medieval period, stories about her as the “first wife of Adam, born with him out of the dirt,” arise, and she is banished from the garden for transgressions varying from asking to name some of the animals, refusal to submit sexually, and speaking the most sacred name of God. Cropping up in hundreds of years of amulets, esoteric texts and imagery, and perhaps the word “lullaby” (from “Lilith abiti”—"Lilith go away,”)the scorned, baby-eating, demon-birthing, nightmare-inducing, sexually dangerous succubus with long profane hair and sometimes bestial features, is a fascinating example of how suppression and vilification of the divine feminine results in the self-fulfilling prophesy of vengeance, violent shame, and destructive subversion.