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> I must be sensitized to serpents with female faces because today I happened > across a 1501 woodcut of a Temptation scene with a "she-devil". The > caption described this as the "evil Serpent (or Lilith)". Since it was not > in a scholarly book (it was, in fact a Medieval cookbook) I am wondering if > there is a textual basis for the serpent being identified with Lilith. Any > ideas?