Then the godless one, Sammael, went up to the tree and touched it. But the tree cried out, “_Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the ungodly cast me down!_ Touch me not, thou godless one!” Then Sammael called to the woman, and said, “See, I have touched the tree and am not dead. Do you also touch it and try.” But when Eve drew near to the tree she saw the Angel of Death waiting sword in hand, and she said in her heart, “Perhaps I am to die, and then God will create another wife for Adam; that shall not be, he must die too.” So she gave him of the fruit. And when he took it and bit, his teeth were blunted, and thus it is that the back teeth of men are no longer sharp.[80] Footnote 63: Lafitau, Mœurs des Sauvages Amériquaines, i. p. 93. Footnote 64: Pallas, Reise, i. p. 334. Footnote 65: Hodgson, Buddhism, p. 63. Footnote 66: Upham, Sacred Books of Ceylon, iii. 156. Footnote 67: Mémoires Chinois, i. p. 107. Footnote 68: Bundehesh in Windischmann: Zoroastrische Studien. Berlin, 1863, p. 82; and tr. A. du Perron, ii. pp. 77-80. Footnote 69: So also Abulfeda, Hist. Ante-Islamica, p. 13. Footnote 70: Weil, pp. 19-28. Footnote 71: Tabari, i. p. 80. Footnote 72: Diod. Sicul., i. 14 et seq. Footnote 73: Ausland für Nov. 4, 1847. Footnote 74: W. Smith, Nouveau Voyage de Guinée. Paris, 1751, ii. p. 176. Footnote 75: Bowdler, Mission from Cape Coast to Ashantee. London, 1819, p. 344. Footnote 76: Cranz, Historie von Grönland. Leipzig, 1770, i. p. 262. Footnote 77: Humboldt, Pittoreske Ansichten d. Cordilleren; Plate xiii. and explanation, ii. pp. 41, 42. Footnote 78: De la Borde, Reise zu den Caraiben. Nürnb. 1782, i. pp. 380-5. Footnote 79: Allg. Hist. der Reisen, xviii. p. 395. Footnote 80: Eisenmenger, i. pp. 827-9. V. ADAM AND EVE AFTER THE FALL. When Adam reached the earth, the Eagle said to the Whale, with whom it had hitherto lived in the closest intimacy, “Now we must part, for there is no safety for us animals since man has come amongst us. The deepest abysses of ocean must be thy refuge, and thou must protect thyself with cunning from the great foe who has entered the earth. I must soar high above the clouds, and there find a place of escape from him who is destined to be my pursuer till death.”[81] According to certain cabbalistic Rabbis, Adam, when cast out of Eden, was precipitated into Gehenna, but he escaped therefrom to earth, by repeating and pronouncing properly the mystic word Laverererareri.[82] In the Talmud it is related that when Adam heard the words of God, “_Thou shalt eat the herb of the field_” (Gen. iii. 18), he trembled in all his limbs, and exclaimed, “O Lord of all the world! I and my beast, the Ass, shall have to eat out of the same manger!” But God said to him, because he trembled, “Thou shalt eat bread in the sweat of thy brow.”[83]