A folktale about the Ushioni-buchi located in Miogawa River in Wakayama Prefecture tells us that when a young man gave a hungry woman a part of the food in his lunch box, she turned out an incarnation of Ushioni, and two months later she saved his life when he was drowning in a flood.
和歌山の三尾川の牛鬼淵の伝承では、青年が空腹の女性に弁当を分けたところ、その女性は牛鬼の化身で、2ヶ月後に青年が大水で流されたときに命を救われた。