The lair of Shuten Doji and his gang was on Mt. Oe (which is generally thought to have been located in Tanba Province, but a competing theory holds that "Mt. Oe" in fact refers to the Mt. Oe on the border of the modern-day cities of Kyoto and Kameoka); according to legend, they committed various outrages, for example kidnapping the children of noblemen in Kyoto, until they were laid low by MINAMOTO no Yorimitsu and his four retainers (known as "Yorimitsu's Four Heavenly Warriors").
酒呑童子一味は大江山（丹波国にあったとされるが、現在の京都市と亀岡市の境にある大枝山という説もある）を拠点にし、京の貴族の子女を誘拐するなど乱暴狼藉をはたらいたが、源頼光と4人の家臣たち（頼光四天王）によって滅ぼされたという。