However this folk story is not written in the original book "Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro" (One hundred bags in idleness), and Kenji MURAKAMI, a tourist of a specter, says that Sekien created the story as an explanation of the illustration.
但し原典『百器徒然袋』にはそのような伝承は述べられておらず、妖怪探訪家・村上健司はこれを、石燕が絵解きとして創作した物としている。