RUSSIAN FLOOD STORY

To find out why Noah was building an ark, the devil told Noah's wife to prepare a strong drink.

Noah, drunk from this drink, told the secret God entrusted him with.

The devil hindered Noah's work, and when the ship was finished, sneaked into it in the company of the wife, who had tempted her husband into saying the devil's name.

Once in the ark, he assumed the form of a mouse and gnawed holes in the bottom of the ark.

[Holmberg, p. 363]

Holmberg, Uno. Finno-Ugric, Siberian, in MacCulloch, C. J. A., ed., The Mythology of All Races, v. IV, Marshall Jones Co., Boston, 1927.

The Mythology of All Races 4: Finno-Ugric and Siberian - Anna’s Archive

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RUSSIAN FLOOD STORY

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