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It's a retelling of the story of Noah's ark, embellished
with elements from Romanian folklore, including how the
devil sneaked aboard, why Noah threw a cat overboard, and
the role of a snake in saving the ark. In this Romanian
folk version of Noah's Ark, getting the animals to march,
two by two, onto the ark is the easy part. It's Noah's
stubborn wife who insists that she's staying on dry land.
Frustrated, Noah finally declares, "Oh, you devil, come in!"
With that, the devil creeps on board the ark in the form
of a mouse and once inside, tries to sabotage the ark by
nibbling away at the planks, but Noah throws a fur glove
at it, which turns into a cat that catches the mouse, and
Noah throws them both overboard. The devil-as-mouse escapes
and the cat comes back on board to dry itself in the warmest,
sunniest spot, a habit that continues to this day.
But the problem of the hole in the ark remains.
Noah makes a deal with one of the snakes on board that if
the snake will plug up the hole with his tail, then Noah
will give him whatever he desires when they reach land.
The snake complies and, according to the legend, this is
why snakes to this day do not have tails.
Once Noah reaches land, the snake asks Noah to provide
"a human being every day, for me and my children to eat."
After the animals disembark, Noah realizes that if he
fulfills his part of the bargain, humans will soon become
extinct. "So Noah seizes the snake and threw it into the
fire, where it was burned to ash. Then God sent a wind to
scatter the ash all over the world, and from each fleck of
ash a flea was born ... And from that time to this, in
fulfillment of Noah's promise to the snake, together all
the fleas in the world suck just enough blood from people
to make up one whole human being a day."
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