However, the lantern yokai has often been reported not as a Chochin Obake (literally, lantern ghost) but as a fire of mysterious or suspicious origin, such as the kitsune-bi and chochin-bi (lantern light).
しかし提灯お化けのような妖怪ではなく、狐火や提灯火のような怪火として伝承されていることが多い。