Brewer's: 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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