In addition to the above, there is also a legend describing a miracle which relates that when Sonkeitoku of the Northern Wei Dynasty was about to be executed and the executioner brought the axe down, Sonkeitoku uttered the aforementioned scripture and the axe was broken; however, another legend has it that the scripture uttered by Sonkeitoku was some other "Kookannonkyo" (another of the Buddhist scriptures), thus the story is not certain.
このほかに、北魏の孫敬徳が処刑されそうになったときに、同一の経文を唱えたところ、死刑執行人が刀を振り下ろしても刀が折れてしまうという霊験があったという伝説もあるが、孫が唱えたのは別の『高王観音経』であるともいい、はっきりしない。