Long Legs was a skinny sort who had a very loud voice and some wildly long lower appendages that stretched hint all the way to the sky. He was able to cross the expanse of the Aizu basin in one step, his legs were so long. It is said that he would stand with one foot on the top of Mount Bandai and the other on top of Hakase Mountain and gather clouds with his arms, which dar-kened the sky of the Aizu area.

Like Long Legs, Long Arms had some extremely lanky limbs. He would often stick his arms in Lake Inawashiro and then shake the water from them, causing heavy rain to fall throughout Aizu. These two monsters seemed to do nothing but cause stormy weather, and were happy in their nefarious activities. Whenever the sun began to shine and the farming people of Aizu grew happy, Long ,Arms and Long Legs would go to work. Long Arms would shake rain from his limbs while Long Legs would cloud up the skies and blow typhoon-like winds, causing the collapse of many a tree, house, and bridge.

The people of Aizu were so frightefied of these creatures they shouldn't work the fields and grow the rice they needed to survive, a troubling matter to say the least. But there was nothing they could do about their sorly state.

Then one day, a ragged looking monk passed through the area and noticed the long faces of the Aizu people. He asked what the problem was, and told the farmers "I'll catch Long Arms and Long Legs for you somehow." And then, against the farmer's protests that fighting such po-werful monsters was useless. the monk set off on his task to subdue the beasts by climbing to the top of Mount Bandai. He called out "Hey ... Long Legs ... Long Arms... I hear you think you can do anything, is that really true ?" Then,from above his head, came the insane laughter of the goblins "You foolish monk. You doubt our power? There is nothing we can't do" was the monsters' reply. "Is that right?

So why don't you prove it by doing something difficult?" the holy man shot back. "Are you trying to make fools of us ? Name one thing we can not do" bellowed one of the grisly pair. "You're so big, I bet you can't get yourselves into this little jar.

Long Arms and Long Legs, tricked into their new cramped surroundings in a jar hidden at the top of Mt.Bandai, tried and tried to free themselves, but to no avail. And without the goblins around, the Aizu sky cleared, and people were once again able to work in their fields. The monk, feeling his work was complete, took to the road once more, never to be seen again.

It wasn't until much later that the people of Aizu discovered that the wandering monk was in fact Kuukai,the famous priest of the Heian period, who travelled throughout Japan spreading the wisdom of Buddha.