Dumah (angel)

Dumah (Heb. דּוּמָה‎ dūmā, "silence") is an angel mentioned in Rabbinic and Islamic literature as an angel who has authority over the wicked dead. 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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