BIRTH--BETROTHAL--AN ABORIGINAL GIRL FROM INFANCY TO WOMANHOOD To begin at the beginning, Bahloo, the moon, is a sort of patron of women.

He it is who creates the girl babies, assisted by Wahn, the crow, sometimes.
Should Wahn attempt the business on his own account the result is direful; women of his creating are always noisy and quarrelsome.
Bahloo's favourite spot for carrying on the girl manufacturing is somewhere on the Culgoa.

On one of the creeks there is to be seen, when it is dry, a hole in the ground.

As water runs along, the bed of this creek, gradually a stone rises from this hole.

As the water rises it rises, always keeping its top out of the water.
This is the Goomarh, or spirit-stone, of Bahloo.