Into the Wardrobe

"When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone
Sits at Cair Paravel in throne,
The evil time will be over and done.

"So things must be drawing near their end now he's come and you've come. We've heard of Aslan coming into these parts before--long ago, nobody can say when. But there's never been any of your race here before."

"That's what I don't understand, Mr. Beaver," said Peter. "I mean isn't the Witch herself human?"

"She'd like us to believe it," said Mr. Beaver, "and it's on that that she bases her claim to be Queen. But she's no Daughter of Eve. She comes of your father Adam's"--here Mr. Beaver bowed--"your father Adam's first wife, her they called Lilith. And she was one of the Jinn. That's what she comes from on one side. And on the other she comes of the giants. No, no, there isn't a drop of real human blood in the Witch."

"That's why she's bad all through, Mr. Beaver," said Mrs. Beaver.

"True enough, Mrs. Beaver," replied he. "There may be two views about humans (meaning no offence to the present company), but there's no two views about things that look like humans and aren't."




Did you know that Lilth was Adam's first wife in Genesis?

A belated welcome, bekkah, I should have said so before :)

Acutally, Lilith isn't Adam's first wife in Genesis, she doesn't appear in the Bible at all. Except possibly as a mistranslation of a word for a bird. Rather the Lilith story originates in some medival Jewish mythology.

well i came across it a few times when i was looking at the white witch for my research paper

Not in Genesis, you didn't.

Lilith is a myth. Adam only had one wife and that was Eve.

Perhaps she is simply claiming to be human. Could it be that the inhabitants of Cairn came from Earth somehow, just as the Telmarines got into Narhia from earth?

Wikipedia says . It says specifically that "Lilith is a female Mesopotamian night demon believed to harm male children." Interesting....

Read the Magician's Nephew - that tells you how she got into Narnia.