In the 17th century, the children of the settlers wandered deep into the uncharted world. Here, within the dark, they were confronted by things unknown that terrified them. The rivers of the Swartberg manifested as a stallion and befriended an English refugee, a woman named Arabella. Consequently, the woman was said to be involved in devil worship by the Dutch community to which she belonged. When the “monster” and the woman were discovered, the woman’s husband struck out at the stallion with an axe. The furious blade severed the limbs of both the stallion and the woman. They survived, however, because the woman’s child attached the stallion’s severed leg to his dying mother using a hair from the stallion’s mane as thread and a shard of bone as a needle. All three now wander around The Bog preaching to Moles.