Far From Reality

Jewish Folklore



Meanings: Fool, silly, stupid, clue-less and dumb. Literaly means 'cocoon'

May be dervied from the word gelem which means 'raw material'

     Early Judaism recounts the earliest stories of Golems

Golems cannot speak

Writing the hebrew word Emet (truth) on its forhead would keep it animated, erasing the first letter and making the word Meit (dead) would deactivate it.

They are incapable of hurting the person who created them according to all Jewish kabbalistic descriptions.

 



The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud - A Golem is loose in London.

Kiln People by David Brin - featured duplicates of people made out of mud.

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett - Golems are used as mailmen.