There are three other theories: a theory that this crime is a curse that hurts the landowner by piercing a cursed skewer in the fields (or preventing the owner from approaching the field and usurp it); a theory that this crime hurts the landowner's legs by secretly setting up many skewers in the field; and a theory that says this crime kills livestock by piercing them with skewers.
他に、他人の田畑に呪いを込めた串を刺すことでその所有者に害を及ぼす（または近寄れないようにした上で横領する）という呪詛説、田の中に多くの串を隠し立てて所有者の足を傷つける傷害説、家畜に串を刺して殺す家畜殺傷説の3説がある