This caused a confusion in some regions because it became linked with a folk story from Kannazuki (tenth month of the lunar calendar and literally, the month without gods) but festivals to see the god off from rice fields were held across Japan after mid-October according to the old lunisolar calendar.
神無月の伝承とこれを結びつけたがゆえに混乱の生じた地域もあったが、旧10月中旬以降に神を田から送る祭は各地でおこなわれた。