Adne Sadeh

Welcome to the party!

Quiet afternoon so I set up the LinkTree I've been meeting to get to. linktr.ee/adnesadeh

Shabbat Shalom, everyone!

I'll have Square & a Venmo QR code, a 3 level stand, my Rolling to Jerusalem maps & monster hunting kits for some variety, a foam board with pics of some individual cards & a puff sheet, free stickers, & an information card handout for my socials & podcast, & a "upcoming talks" flyer. That good?

Hey artists/writers who have done table sales. I'm going to be doing my first table sale for my Jewish Monster and Magic trading cards at the Ann Arbor, MI JCC on Sept 14. I've got a month to prep. What are your best tips. (looking at you @kaijupoet.bsky.social and @roseberrycomix.bsky.social).

Proceedings : Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Vol. 9-40 issued in parts

Fixing the "Folklore of Mosul" R. Campbell Thompson URLs
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Part 2. 1907 archive.org/details/proc...

@rokhl.bsky.social is a great teacher. You want in on this!

The image is a personally retouched version of the public domain photo "Jews in Dęblin greet Piłsudski, 1920" from the YIVO archives, hosted at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Je... Original photographer unknown. 5/5

Going Unseen in the Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Magical Tradition After a brief methodological introduction, the article reconstructs invisibility magic, its uses and rationale in medieval and early modern Jewish culture, based on a rich selection of manuscript text...

For more on Jewish invisibility magic, see Alessia Bellusci's article "Going Unseen in the Medieval and Early Modern
Jewish Magical Tradition" www.academia.edu/81296123/Goi...

and "Folklore of Mosul" books.googleusercontent.com/books/conten...

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No. 74. To see without being seen (from Rabbi Mosheh bar Nahman, may his memory be for a blessing !).—|rite these names on gazelle-skin: "Yeisteb Ia Agareun," and put it in a dish or glass lamp full of oil which thou shalt burn and not spill any, and at the end of three days thou shalt find therein a ring, and thou shalt wear it on thy finger, and shalt see without being seen. Proved and certain.

This second one leverages the Talmudic "see and be unseen" phrase and focuses on the creation of a magic ring. 3/5

No. 71. For blindness when thou seest murderers coming.-Say six times this oath: "I adjure you Nibara Pelek H'phaliti Elia Wa'lay Pelek Yida Nadiel Hephad Nadiel, that smote the men of Sodom and Gomorrah with blindness, that ye smite these men with blindness, that they see me not, nor that which is (with me), nor all my company nor all these men which thou hast not smitten, which thou hast smitten with blindness." Thus say six times in succession and in order, and thou shalt see them, but they shall not see thee.

Here are two invisibility magic charms from R. Campbell Thomson's 1907 article "The Folklore of Mosul." This one rephrases the story of the angels who struck with blindness the men of Sodom (Gen 19.11) 2/5

Image of Jews talking to a Polish army officer in 1920, with one of the Jewish men visibly distorted representing social invisibility.

The phrase "sees but is not seen" signifies that God is omniscient but hidden and anchors a variety of charms, amulets, and recipes for Jewish invisibility magic that confused the eye of the hostile viewer. So "social invisibility" keep our heads down magic. Very relatable :) 1/5

Whew. Wayward Children episode 31 about Werewolves in Jewish lore is in the can. @kaijupoet.bsky.social really needs a silver headed walking stick, just sayin'.

Jewish women's folk ritual wise women, healers, banishers of the evil eye (puh puh puh 🪬🧿 ) and more, across the globe

Some posts I've been dreaming of writing for ages, and this is one of them.

On Jewish women's folk rituals--

On wise women,

healers,

banishers of the evil eye (puh puh puh 🪬🧿 )

and more, across the globe

with MUSIC

a BOOK LIST

and links to contemporary teachers --

come and learn.

Right?

For the real story about the 1922 Orphan Decree in Yemen, see this cool video by themizrahistory on Instagram.
www.instagram.com/p/DMqee5ZNs8l/

A picture of an Instagram page. On the left a picture of a Yemenite woman and on the right text describing the story.

Jewish Monster & Magic Story Prompt. It's 1924 in Yemen and the Orphan's Decree is two years old. A Jewish business man, with donkeys loaded with goods is also a smuggler, bringing Jewish orphans to safety in Aden to avoid them being kidnapped and converted. Except one of the orphans is a shedim.

The painting is a detail from "The "Little" Tower of Babel" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pi...

I've had a hard time finding a translation of either, but have seen notes about both texts in Boaz Huss's article "Demonology and Magic in the Writings of R. Menahm Ziyyoni" & Eliezer Segal's book "Ask Now of Days That are Past."

Painting of the Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Where do werewolves, estrie, & mares come from? According to 14th century German Kabbalist, R. Menachem Ziyyoni they came from the builders of the Tower of Babel. Ziyyoni discusses them in both his Torah commentary, Sefer Ziyyoni, & his manuscript on demonology, Zefunei Ziyyoni.

Art board with 8 example trading cards

I just ordered more Jewish Monster and Magic Trading Cards. Should be here in 3 or 4 weeks. Then we'll get them back into the Madness Heart Press shop. Can't believe the first batch sold out already. @madnessheartpress.bsky.social @kaijupoet.bsky.social

Picture of a crochet Adne Sadeh vegetable man standing up with a vine coming out of it's navel

Picture of a crochet Adne Sadeh vegetable man sitting down

Picture of a crochet Adne Sadeh vegetable man leaning forward, showing off it's flowers

Picture of a crochet Adne Sadeh vegetable man standing up, with it's back toward the camera, showing off flowers and (I think) mushrooms

One of my IRL buddies crocheted the COOLEST Adne HaSadeh! She made it for her husband but had to share the pics. (In Jewish lore, Adne HaSadeh are carnivorous vegetable people, created before Adam and Eve, that are attached to the ground through a vine coming out of their naval.) SO FUN!

The photograph of pre-war Ivenets comes from Eilat Gordin Levitan's site
www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/ivenetz/iven...

Photograph of pre-war Invenetz, a set of people walking in front of houses

"In those days one did not consider the dead removed from the affairs of the living." A mortally ill person encounters in a dream an ancestor who left a cure under a pillow.

Checkout this snapshot of pre-Shoah Jewish life from the Yizkor book from Ivenets, Belarus.
www.jewishgen.org/blog/?p=iven...

European Assc. Of Jewish Studies: Workshop Introducing: Jewish Horror, Institute for Jewish Studies | University of Hamburg | March 16–17, 2026. Deadline for proposals 1st Sept 2025 www.eurojewishstudies.org/homepage-ann...

lol. There is definitely Jewish werewolf lore…not sure that WBM is a go to reference

A still from The Wolf Man with Larry getting told how to kill a werewolf by an old gypsy woman

Huh. In The Wolf Man, Larry gets told that a werewolf can be killed by a silver bullet, a silver knife or a silver walking stick. Silver handled walking sticks are definitely part of Jewish lore. They're often carried by ba'al Shem (wonder rabbis) to protect from shedim (demons).

Poster for the 1981 film "An American Werewolf in London"

Neither movie is reflective of Jewish werewolf lore (not that I remember) but they're great and have (non werewolf) Jewish themes so why not.

title screen of the 1941 film, The Wolf Man

@kaijupoet.bsky.social & I will be recording the next Wayward Children podcast on Monday...Jewish Werewolves! Tonight I'm watching a double feature of the original 1941 Wolf Man (written by Jewish Curt Siodmak) and the classic 1981 American Werewolf in London (with a Jewish main character & themes)

Yeah for sure. Lots of fascinating guardian angel lore both at the individual and national level.