Flood Stories from Around the World
These two saved themselves by eating the mice which came out of the ground.
Once on the boat, the devil changed himself into a mouse and began gnawing holes in the hull, until Burkhan created a cat to catch it.
Once in the ark, he assumed the form of a mouse and gnawed holes in the bottom of the ark.
Only a pregnant woman and a pregnant mouse escaped in a pig's trough, paddling with a pot-ladle.
The mouse got it down for her, but demanded in recompense that mice should thereafter have the right to eat part of the harvest.
The husband, Kitimil, saw one day that a mouse had been eating in his sugar-cane field.
His wife, Magigi, told him that it must have been her father who had turned himself into a mouse.
Kitimil thought this was impossible, though, so he set a trap which that night caught and killed the mouse.
Magigi was terrified that he had killed her father, and told him to bring the mouse.
The next morning, Magigi told Kitimil to take the mouse's blood and four of its teeth and bury the body.
They took some leaves and oil and the blood and teeth of the mouse and built the structure on the mountaintop.
A mouse nibbled a hole in the leather bag which contained the sun's heat, and the heat escaped and melted all the snow in an instant.
Later, Wekwek commented to Olle that the people had no fire, and Olle sent Wekewillah, the Shrew-mice brothers, to steal fire from Kahkahte, the Crow, who had it at his roundhouse.
The Last Days of Atlantis
17 "Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, declares YHWH."
Nana Beaujo holds on to a great big log
It's the mouse that gnaws the rope to save the day, or it's the little hummingbird that comes in and she's the hero.
Genetic History of Mice in the Azores
2015 Genetic Study on House Mice:
Significance: The house mice on the Azores were studied to trace human migration due to their role as common stowaways on boats.
Genetic Relationships: Most house mice on the Azores are genetically related to mice in Iberia, aligning with the known history of Portuguese colonization.
Clade F Discovery: On two islands, Santa Maria and Terceira, a significant number of house mice belong to clade F, which is rare in Iberia.
Geographical Association: Clade F mice are typically found in Norway, Northern Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands.
Historical Context: This clade is closely associated with the medieval Norse, indicating these mice traveled on Norse (Viking) boats.
Potential Norse Presence: The presence of clade F mice suggests that Norse boats might have reached the Azores, potentially bringing these mice with them.
The presence of clade F mice alone is not conclusive proof.
The genetic history of mice on the Azores offers intriguing clues about early human activity on the islands, potentially pointing to Norse exploration predating the Portuguese arrival.
Account of Sethos
The Miracle of the Mice:
Herodotus recounts a miraculous event where field mice gnawed through the quivers, bowstrings, and shield handles of the Assyrian army, rendering their weapons useless.
He then marched with such troops as would follow him and encamped in Pelusium at the mouth of the Nile; here he was joined by a multitude of field mice, which devoured all the quivers and bowstrings of the enemy, and the handles of their shields, so that on the morrow, being unarmed, they were easily overcome" .
In gratitude for the divine intervention, Sethos is said to have erected a statue of himself holding a mouse, with an inscription that highlighted the miraculous event.
"After this the Egyptian king, returning home in triumph, raised in the temple of Hephaestus a statue of himself, holding in his hand a mouse, and bearing the following inscription: 'Look on me and learn to reverence the gods".