Legend says that when Adam told God that the woman he had made for him flew away, God sent three angels — Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof — to retrieve her. They found her in the middle of the Red Sea, surrounded by demons, where she was employed in her new role, namely giving birth to a hundred-plus monsters a day, known as lilim. The angels deliver God's message to her: She can return to Adam, no harm no foul, or God will kill 100 of her children every day. Lilith refuses and continues to live in the wild as a demoness, a mother of monsters, and an assailant of children. Male children were thought to be vulnerable to Lilith's assaults up until they were eight days old, at which point they would be circumcised and therefore dedicated to God. Female children were considered at Lilith's mercy for 20 days. The demoness could be held at bay, however, by magical amulets inscribed with the names of the three angels sent to capture her. If she was warded off from a human child by an amulet, she would be forced to expend her bloodlust on one of her own children. (Perhaps needless to say, when God tried his hand again at creating a woman, he made her from Adam's rib in order to make clearer who was the boss of whom. This has definitely gone well for humans as a society.)
In this way, the Ben Sirah story manages to reconcile existing traditions of Lilith as a baby-killing demon, a seducer of Adam, and Adam's first wife.
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