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The crystal and stone she puts under the water in the creek, the feathered stick she erects on the edge of the water, then goes in and splashes about with green twigs, singing all the time. After a while she gets out and parades the bank with the wi-mouyan, singing a rain-song which charms some of the water out of the creek into the clouds, whence it falls where she directs it.
But it generally happens that the baby is too cute to be tempted, and an old woman has to produce what she calls a wi-mouyan a clever stick which she waves over the expectant mother, crooning a charm which brings forth the baby. If any one nurses a patient and the patient dies, the nurse wears an armlet of opossum's hair called goomil, and a sort of fur boa called gurroo.
This pole would also keep away the spirits of the dead from the house during her absence. While she was away there would be no one to come and clear the place of evil by smoking the Budtha twigs all round it, as she always did if I were alone and, she thought, in need of protection. Old Bootha has what she calls a wi-mouyan, clever-stick.
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