That women and children who are out at dusk are spirited away is the same here as anywhere else.
In a house at a place called Samuto in Matsuzaki village, a young girl left her straw sandals under a pear tree and disappeared.
One day more than thirty years later, when relatives and acquaintances had gathered at that house, a woman, very old and haggard, came home. It was that girl.
"Why have you come back?"
"I wanted to see everyone. Well then, I'll be going again."
And with that the woman vanished again without a trace.
That day a fierce wind was blowing. So even now, on days when the wind is loud, the people of Tono say, "It's the kind of day the old woman of Samuto might come home."