

Agrat Bat Mahlat

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Agrat Bat Mahlat

Agrat Bat Mahlat as illustrated by the artist Genzoman
Grouping Mythological Legend
Sub grouping Succubi
Similar creatures Succubi
Related to Lilith
Eisheth Zenunium
Mythology Jewish Mythology
Region Judaism
Habitat Earth
Other Planes


In Zohaistic Qabalah, Agrat bat Mahlat (אגרת בת מחלת) is a demon, more accurately one of the Succubi. She is a queen of the demons and one of four angels of sacred prostitution, who mates with the archangel Samael. Her succubi sisters are Lilith, Naamah, and Eisheth Zenunium. In the Rabbinic literature of Yalḳuṭ Ḥadash, on the eves of Wednesday and of the Sabbath, she is "the dancing roof-demon" who haunts the air with her chariot and her train of eighteen myriads of messengers of destruction. She dances while Lilith howls.[1] She is also "the mistress of the sorceresses" who communicated magic secrets to Amemar, a Jewish sage.[2]

According to the Kabbalah and the school of Rashba, Agrat bat Mahlat mated with King David and bore a cambion son Asmodeus, king of demons.[3] The spiritual intervention of Hanina ben Dosa and Rabbi Abaye curbed her malevolent powers over humans.[4]

Some authors, such as Donald Tyson, refer to her as a manifestation of Lilith.




  1. Jewish Encyclopedia shedim
  2. Jewish Encyclopedia demonology
  3. Kabbala: Lilith, Queen of the Demons
  4. Geoffrey W. Dennis, The encyclopedia of Jewish myth, magic and mysticism. p. 126

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