Siberia

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This version seems to have traveled widely in Russia. Holmberg notes that it appears in the Russian version of the Revelations of Pseudo-Methodius and may have been carried by settlers to the territory behind the Baikal. The Ostiaks and the Southern Voguls have similar tales in which the devil gives the wife a strong drink which she uses to entice her husband to reveal his secret.

To find out why Noah was building an ark, the devil told Noah's wife to prepare a strong drink. Noah, intoxicated from this drink, told the secret which God entrusted to him. 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, the devil assumed the form of a mouse and gnawed holes in the bottom of the ark.

Uno Holmberg, Finno-Ugric, Siberian, vol. 4 of The Mythology of All Races, ed. C. J. A. MacCulloch, (Boston: Marshall Jones, 1927), 363.