Katab Merari

What is a bitter pole anyway?

According to Wikipedia, it is some kind of monstrous creature…
I believe that our sages spoke in parables and they did not ”live in a movie”.

Do you have any idea what this is supposed to mean?

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A bitter katb is a kind of harmful demon that is found these days until the end of the 9th of Av. Apparently, this demon was invented to explain the majority of the disasters that are occurring in the Jewish people these days: This one was drowned here, this one was run over there – May God protect’ us from disasters Amen
A fast is accepted by all of us on Sunday.