This story tells us how local gods once treated very respectfully were gradually made light of, finally got abandoned, and transformed into a kind of mixture with specters over time.
昔はさしも大切に仕えた地方の神が、次第に軽ぜられてのちついに絶縁して、いつとなく妖怪変化の類に混じた経路を語っている。