Shokoku Rijindan records that in Hiraoka, on rainy nights, a foot-wide fire flew through the air; when it struck a man’s face he glimpsed a form like a chicken, which then reverted to a fireball as it departed. In Saikaku Shokoku Banashi, the flame is the curse of an oil-thieving crone: it darts a league in an instant, and those whose shoulders it grazes will die within a few years—yet it vanishes if one cries out “aburasashi” (“oil filler”). In Tanba, Kokon Hyaku Monogatari Hyōban tells of an old woman who drowned after abandoning her child at the Hozu River; ever since, strange lights have appeared on the water. Toriyama Sekien also depicted it as “Uba-ga-bi,” a ghostly flame bearing an old woman’s face.