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Buffy the vampire slayer, as many slayers before her, relied heavily on wooden stakes, holy water and crucifixes. But TV today is a different story: While vampire hunters still rely on the old Christian-infused tools of the trade, content creators who traffic in sci-fi, fantasy and occult-centered narratives are discovering there’s plenty of Judaic supernatural from which to mine. Generally, Hebrew or Jewish practice pops up to explain something exotic or unexplainable. That computer code that the “Arrow” team can’t interpret? It’s actually gematria, Jewish numerology. That sacred book on “Sleepy Hollow” with the undecipherable language? It’s a book of spells with Hebrew letters in it. That tattoo on supernatural detective John Constantine’s arm? It lives among other tattoos of spiritual/demon-invoking power, but is also Hebrew. ....