An update on a Kenya posting from last year:-

As a follow-up to this   http://luolaughter.blogspot.com/2018/09/omieri-snake.html   I have written this about  "The Crying Stone of Ilesi " ... (near Kakamega)

The most striking feature of this huge stone is that it resembles a gowned figure, perpetually in tears flowing from ‘head to toe' — an image spiced-up by myth and folkfore.  To scientists, it is a formation consisting of a large boulder balanced on a column of rock with water flowing from a groove in the middle. Indeed, geologists describe it as an acid plutonic rock consisting mainly of quartz, alkali, feldspar and mica. 

The stone is of great cultural and spiritual importance to the Luo and Luhya communities and the Isukha sub-tribe in particular. The Isukha live around the rock's formation. "To visitors, it is just another attraction but to us locals, it affects our lives in many ways just as it affected the lives of our forefathers," says 78-year-old John Shikhomoli.   (So the stone isn't especially a 'Luo' site but some miles to the north of their area.)

Villagers say when the stone cries, it is a good omen, signalling a bumper harvest, for instance. When there is drought, the community carries out rituals here to persuade the gods to bring rain. Other rituals are performed to allay disasters. There is a symbolic meaning when the stone ‘cries' when it has not rained, villagers say.  Shikhomoli says the site is also used for ritual cleansing of victims of incest in families.

The crying stone is also of religious importance as churches such as Legio Maria and Rosary Church make pilgrimages to it, camp there overnight as they fast and kesha (hold night-long prayers). "We receive Legio Maria members from far away areas like South Nyanza who come to worship here in seclusion. They believe they can communicate better with God that way," says Kelvin Juma, a villager. He says some of the religious groups decide to camp at the site while crossing into a new year or celebrating Easter festivities, among other significant holidays.

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Stones that produce water from their top are weird, and maybe someone can tell me how this happens.   You can see the water stains on the rock in the above picture, which is one I took many years ago in Jordan .... this is supposed ( ! ) to be the stone that Moses struck with his staff ... "Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank" ... (and he got into trouble for doing so because he hadn't trusted God to provide !)