A private shrine maiden, married with an itinerant Buddhist monk of Shugen, performed worship and divine revelation together, and also adopted the custom of having her hair cut so that a Shugen shrine maiden was called Bikuni.
民間の巫女は修験の山伏と夫婦になって祈祷や託宣を行ったが、剃髪の風習が巫女にも及び、修験巫女は比丘尼とよばれた。