Noah and the Devil: A Legend of Noah's Ark from Romania

In this Romanian folk version of the Noah story, getting the animals to march, two by two, onto the ark is the easy part--it was persuading his wife to come aboard that gave Noah a headache. And when he snapped, "Oh, you devil, come in!," that gave the Devil himself just the invitation he needed. Once aboard, in the shape of a mouse, the Devil gnawed a hole in the ark, to sink it beneath the flood.