![]() The bowls’ purpose was usually to exorcise demons from the house or from the body of the clients named on the bowls, or to turn back malevolent magic that others had practiced against the clients. A drawing of a bound lilith or other demon often appears in the center of the bowl. These are ordinary earthenware bowls that ritual specialists or laypeople from the Jewish, Mandaean, Christian, and pagan communities, who lived in close proximity in the cities of Babylonia, inscribed with incantations in their own dialects of Aramaic. The liliths are known particularly from the Aramaic incantation bowls from Sassanian and early Islamic Iraq and Iran (roughly 400–800 C.E.). Scurlock writes, “The lilû-demons and their female counterparts the lilitu or ardat lilî-demons were hungry for victims because they had once been human they were the spirits of young men and women who had themselves died young.” These demons “slipped through windows into people’s houses looking for victims to take the place of husbands and wives whom they themselves never had.” Another, related demoness was Lamashtu, who threatened new-born babies and “had a disagreeable taste for human flesh and blood.” The figures of Lamashtu and the lilû and lilitu demons eventually converged to form one type of evil figure that seduced men and women and attacked children (Hutter). The Bible mentions the Lilith only once, as a dweller in waste places (Isaiah 34:14), but the characterization of the Lilith or the lili (in the singular or plural) as a seducer or slayer of children has a long pre-history in ancient Babylonian religion. Another YouTuber, Soup Earth Society, uploaded a parody video entitled "Number Lore (1-10)", which reached 1 million views within a week (shown below, right).As an individual Lilith is first known from the Alphabet of Ben Sira, a provocative and often misogynist satirical Hebrew work of the eighth century CE, but the liliths as a category of demons, along with the male lilis, have existed for several thousand years. The video achieved 1 million views within a month (shown below, left). One fan of the video, YouTube user Flowey the Flower, uploaded a video called "Alphabet lore without the lore" on August 27, which was simply each of the letters in the video saying their names. ![]() Many YouTube users have edited Salcedo's videos to make their own, fan-made videos. Īlphabet Lore quickly became immensely popular on YouTube. By September 29, 2022, the video had reached over 19 million views. On August 19, 2022, Salcedo uploaded a video entitled "Alphabet Lore (A-Z…)", which was a compilation of all twenty-six videos in the series. The video also explains the origin of the punctuation mark gems. The series finale, titled "nZ" and uploaded on August 8th, explained that F used to be friends with the other letters, but they turned on him when he accidentally spelled the word "frick", causing him to run away and turn evil. In the second-to-last episode, titled "Y" and uploaded on May 2nd, F was finally defeated for good, and it was revealed that F's plan was to spell the word "friends". For instance, in "R", the letters M, A, and P make a map, and in "U", G, U, and N form a gun. Throughout the series, the letters spell words to make objects that help them. The following episodes told a story about the letter F kidnapping or killing other letters and stealing magic gems that resembled punctuation marks, while other letters try to stop him. On February 5, a video about the letter D was uploaded, but instead of simply being about the letter D, it involved D being attacked and kidnapped by the letter F. This was followed the next day by a similar video about the letter B, then one about the letter C. ![]() The video was a simple animation of the letter A saying its name. ![]() On February 2nd, 2022, Mike Salcedo uploaded a video to YouTube that simply titled "A", after the first letter in the alphabet. ![]()
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