Vanity

	Israel, 990 AD
	he mirror had once hung in the den of darkness in the possession of the Queen Lilith. It once reflected her insidious image, and thusly became corrupted. For many years, it saw only the darkest of evil, bathed in the malevolent glow of hellfire. Then, unbeknownst to man or beast, it found its way in to the world and among the children of Israel. And here it was purchased by an innocent merchants wife.
	The wife brought the mirror to her own home and proudly displayed it, for it was a exquisite thing indeed. She hung the mirror in the room of their only daughter; a beautiful, dark-haired young maiden. The girl glanced at herself in the mirror all the time, and in this way she was drawn into Lilith's web. For the mirror that once hung in the den of darkness was also a gateway to Lilith's cave. That is the same cave Lilith was born into when she abandoned the realm of life for all time, the Other World where her vile demon children dwell.
	Lilith who made her home in that mirror watched every movement of the girl who posed before it. She bided her time and one day she slipped out of the mirror and took possession of the girl, entering through her eyes. Just as the mirror was a gateway to the nether-realm of darkness, Lilith knew the eyes were the gateway to the soul. In this way she took control of the young girl, destroying everything that once was and creating a new, vile creature in her own image. From now on the merchants only daughter was a creature of the darkness, a childe of the Lilim, a harbinger of death.
	Through the youthful body of her newest demon, Lilith drew the neighboring men into her. With her venomous embrace she destroyed them utterly, and feasted upon their flesh and bones. Two times twenty living men found their doom in the arms of the demon seductress. And before her soulless puppet was captured and destroyed by fire, she passed on the cursed mirror. Knowing that some day another would fall under its evil spell.