Many traditions have it that the store where the woman buys candy is at the top of a hill, which implies that the story is related to the Yomotsu Hirasaka (the slope that leads to the land of the dead) in Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters).
また、女に飴を売る飴屋が坂の上にあるとしている伝承が多く、古事記の黄泉比良坂との関連をうかがわせる。