ABE no Seimei had kept the images of the Junishinsho in his house to use them as fortune-telling monsters, but later he placed them under the bridge to use them as needed, because his wife was scared of their faces.
安倍晴明は十二神将を式神として使役し家の中に置いていたが、彼の妻がその顔を怖がったので、晴明は十二神将を戻橋の下に置き、必要なときに召喚していたという。