A folktale handed down in the prefecture says that when Ushioni bit and killed the cattle of a village and also the villagers who tried to do away with it, a samurai named Sakon KONDO heard it and came, and successfully killed it by shooting only an arrow.
また同県の民話では、ある村で家畜の牛が牛鬼に食い殺され、退治しようとした村人もまた食い殺されていたところへ、話を耳にした近藤左近という武士が弓矢の一撃で退治した。