Besides priests, fukuotoko (the luckiest man); fukumusume (the luckiest girl); people involved in Shinto rituals (such as the arrow gatherer of a bow and arrow performance at a festival); performers and promoters at a festival (including sumo wrestlers, daikagura lion dance performers, and stall keepers) as well as their sources (such as the medieval sarugaku form of theater and kugutsu puppet theater) are all 'kannagi' and have long been thought to have special power to bring good luck.
神職だけでなく福男や福娘や神事に携わる庶民（祭り弓矢の矢取りなど）や祭りの興行者（相撲の力士や太神楽の芸人あるいは、縁日の露天商なども）その源流（猿楽・くぐつなど）は「かんなぎ」であり、良い縁起を齎すものとして、特別な力があると考えられてきた。