The book describes that a maidservant killed feudal retainer of domain in Iwate Prefecture and when the maidservant tried to flee, old cleaning rag in the house leaped at the maidservant's face, suffocated her to death.
同書では岩手県の藩士を下女が殺して逃げようとしたところ、家の古雑巾が下女の顔に飛びつき、窒息死させたとある。