[Legend Name: Ta-no-Kokoro Numa Gozen]
Numa Gozen.
A water serpent with a reputation not particularly loud, yet its power is difficult to estimate.
In reality, there is a corresponding story circulating. It is said that in the swampland lake within Kanayama Town, Onuma District, Fukushima Prefecture, a Numa Gozen once occupied it.
In the legend, the Numa Gozen of Kanayama Town was jointly attacked by the samurai and onmyoji of the time.
However, it is said it did not truly die. Whenever low black clouds hang over the marshland lake of Kanayama Town, the massive swamp would surge with giant waves, the mist obscuring the sky, and there Numa Gozen would re-emerge in the guise of the "Dragon Maiden Otohime" to wreak havoc.
Later, people established Numa Gozen Shrine by the marsh, enshrining it, and only then did the situation start to improve.
