Origins
Lily was born in 1827 to Sam Dracula (Grandpa) and his 166th wife (referred to only as "Grandma"). She lived with Grandpa for some time in Transylvania before meeting Herman Munster and marrying him in 1865. She, Grandpa, and Herman moved to America sometime before the mid-1940s and adopted her sister's child, Marilyn. In the mid-1950s she gave birth to Eddie, her and Herman's only child.
Her name is presumably derived from the tradition of the lily as a flower of death, or a vague reference to Lilith, one of mythology's oldest known vampires.
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