Toshitaro YAMAGUCHI, a scholar of specters, referring to a ritual of amagoi (praying for rain) called Sunakake festival held at Hirose-jinja Shrine where sand is used as a symbol of rain or regional festivals where people throw sand at each other while calling out "sunakake-babaa," suggests that such rituals and events have led to the survival of legends about Sunakake-babaa.
妖怪研究家・山口敏太郎は、奈良県ではで砂を雨に見立てた広瀬神社の「砂かけ祭り」という雨乞いの神事や、砂をかけ合って「砂かけ婆だ」と囃し立てる祭りのある地域もあることから、そのような神事や祭りが砂かけ婆の伝承に繋がった可能性を示唆している。