It also says that the children were probably avatars of the Junishinsho (images of Twelve Divine Generals, protectors of the Healing Buddha) that ABE no Seimei, a reputed Onmyoji (professional practitioner of Onmyodo, a Japanese traditional esoteric cosmology), had secretly hidden under the bridge.
その童子は、陰陽師・安倍晴明が一条戻橋の下に隠していた十二神将の化身であろうと書かれている。