Additionally, since the Kamakura period more and more of the literature distorted and cited a description in consciousness-only theory of ' 女人地獄使。能断仏種子。外面似菩薩。内心如夜叉 (Women are messengers from hell. They can cut Buddha's seeds. Their outside faces resemble Bosatsu. Their minds are like Yasha (devil))' (there is a superstition adapted from the Kegon-kyo Sutra) and another description in the Hoke-kyo Sutra of ' 又女人身。猶有女人五障説 (There exist women. There is a theory that women are five obstacles)' as 'Because women are unclean, they can neither become Buddha nor be relieved,' apart from the original meanings or contexts.
また、唯識論で説かれた「女人地獄使。能断仏種子。外面似菩薩。内心如夜叉」（華厳経を出典とする俗説あり）や法華経の「又女人身。猶有女人五障説」を、その本来の意味や文脈から離れ、「女性は穢れているので成仏できない、救われない」という意味に曲げて解釈し、引用する仏教文献も鎌倉時代ごろから増えてくる。