Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Flood

The almost universal tradition of the East respecting this catastrophe is that the waters were boiling hot. (See the Talmud, the Targums, the Koran, etc.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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