twillum

Updated: May 15, 2025

This is a Hebrew word that means Evil Angel and it was the signal for nothing doing. "The story I remember is on a train going but of Kiev," said Mishkin. "Years ago it was. I was sitting in the train reading some Russian papers when I heard three old Jews talking. They had long white beards and there were marks on their foreheads from where they laid twillum.

Ben Hecht - A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago