However the description originated from tale of monster of old cleaning rag called 'Revenge of old cleaning rag', told in "Tohoku Kaidan no Tabi" (Trip to the scary stories in Tohoku Region) by Norio YAMADA, a novelist.
しかし、これは小説家・山田野理夫の著書『東北怪談の旅』で語られている古雑巾の怪異譚「古ぞうきんの仇討ち」が由来とされる。