It is said that for the ritual, the practitioner wore gotoku with candles attached to it on his/her head, dressed in a white gown, and visited a place where the sacred tree was planted, on the shaft of which he/she drove a nail, in order to break the barrier between this world and the underworld, and conjured cow-like specters.
五徳を頭に被って、そこにロウソクを立て、白装束を身に纏うといったいでたちで、丑の刻（深夜）に神木のある場所に出向いて、結界を破るために釘を打ち込み、牛などの姿をした妖怪を呼び出したといわれる。