When a cold spread in the Edo period, people in turn passed a straw doll (in the shape of the wind god) through the town, saying, 'Pass it, pass it,' and in the end, the doll was abandoned outdoors or floated away on the river, they say.
江戸時代には風邪の流行時に風の神を象った藁人形を「送れ送れ」と囃しながら町送りにし、野外に捨てたり川へ流したりしたという。