Monster of the Week

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Nephilim - Half Human, Half Angel - All Terrifying
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Nephilim - Half Human, Half Angel - All Terrifying

Monsters Tend to Avoid Them

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Jessica Maison
Oct 21, 2024
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Please enjoy a Monster of the Week Entry from the pages of our favorite cute and cuddly book of the dead, Necro:

(this entry is part fiction, part non-fiction)

Nephilim

(biblical mythology, Jewish and Christian)

Love and the Pilgrim, 1896–7, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones,

Catchphrase: “You will bend the knee or I will bend it for you.”

I’ve long been fascinated with the Nephilim, mysterious creatures that are briefly mentioned in the Bible. That is, I was fascinated with them until I finally met a few, and then I knew what it was to truly fear something. Being a powerful grimoire, I don’t fear much, but I will and always will fear the nephilim.

The nephilim were said to be a hybrid between the daughters of man and the sons of God. The sons of God or The Watchers were angels that human’s believed God sent down to Earth to guard man in the beginning. Or, another interpretation of those passages is that that these angels left heaven to be with human women. One way or another, some of the Watcher…

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