Golem
c. 1200 CE – 2026 CEattested
Prague and Ashkenazi Europe
- Jewish Folklore
Shaped from clay and animated by a written name, obedient and literal-minded. An old story about making a servant you cannot reason with that has not aged at all.
Known for
- animated by a word
- obeys too literally
- must be deactivated
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.