In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Ba aids the Yellow Emperor by stopping the rain, exhausting her power and unable to return to heaven, remaining on the frontier. Later works such as the Shenyijing, Bencao Gangmu, and Sancai Tuhui describe a human-faced beast living on Mount Gang, with one arm and one leg, whose appearance causes severe drought. In Japan, the Wakan Sansai Zue relays these accounts, and Sekien illustrates it as the hiderigami. Local oral lore is scarce; knowledge largely derives from textual transmission.