Dumah (angel)

Dumah (angel)

Dumah (Heb. דומה "dumbness/to be dumb, or silent") is an angel mentioned in Rabbinical literature. Dumah is a popular figure in Yiddish folklore. I. B. Singer's Short Friday (1964), a collection of stories, mentions Dumah as a "thousand-eyed angel of death, armed with a fiery rod or flaming sword." Dumah is the Aramaic word for silence.

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