"The seven myells were sisters, most beautiful women, that is by
     women is meant they were feminine pure spirits. A neighbour,
     Thowra, was a great hunter and abducted the eldest. The other
     sisters came to her rescue, but not before she had a female child
     which had long hair [my emphasis] - a phenomenal growth of hair
     which vacillated between normal and long, coinciding with Thowra's
     goings and comings. Thowra eventually became the moon."(14)

-- J. E. AITCHISON, The Pleiades in Aboriginal Mythology, workshop/vol0503/

 14. Robert Brothers, "Myth of Australia - Thowra and the Seven Myells,
   South Coast Legend", The Australian Anthropological Journal vol. I,
   no. 3, (27 Feb. 1897), p. 10.