When Adam became aware that because of his sin God decreed mortality upon him and all his
future descendants he embarked upon a period of puritance which lasted for 130 years.
He fasted, refrained from intercourse with Eve and, in order to martify his flesh, wore a belt of rough
fig twigs around his naked body. He could not, however, control his unvoluntary nocturnal emissions
which were brought about by female spirits, who came and coupled with him and bore him spirits and demons
and liliths.
At the same time, male spirits came and impregnated Eve, who thus became the mother of innummerable
demon children.
The spirits thus procreated are the plagues of mankind