The article talks about the "Golem," a huge ghoulish automaton with supernatural powers that was called to the aid of the Jews to fight villains. It notes that the historic origins of the Golem stems from the Old Testament tale of the Golden Calf, that formulas for creating Golems were extracted from the "Book of Creation," dated between the 3rd and 6th centuries Common Era (CE), and that the word golem has its origins in biblical Hebrew.