The story that the old woman turned to be ubagabi was also described in "Saikaku Shokoku Banashi"(stories in various places written by Saikaku) as a story of 'Miosute aburatsubo' (a story of an old woman who stole oil for a lamp from a shrine because she was miserably poor).
この老女が姥ヶ火となった話は、『西鶴諸国ばなし』でも「身を捨て油壷」として記述されている。