White sweat for good fortune and black sweat for bad luck

Once upon a time, there lived a fisherman named Sozaemon at the mouth of the beach at Hagiriura, Daiozaki. One day, Sozaemon went out to the offshore of Daio Island and cast his net as usual, but on that particular day, he did not catch any fish.
“What is this?”
Sozaemon threw the stone into the sea with a sharp tongue and rowed his boat out to sea, and when he put the net in the water, his previous intention came back.
Another stone? Sozaemon muttered.
Sozaemon threw the stone away, muttering to himself, and rowed onward, this time in a different direction, and when he had cast his net, the same stone caught him again.
　Sozaemon thought this was strange, and loaded the stone on his boat, rowed back, and placed it under the bank on the beach.
A few months passed, and as the children of the village went out to play on the beach, they started to urinate on the stone, and kick it for fun.The child who urinated on it would get a fever, and the child who kicked it with his foot would get swollen feet.
"This is strange, it's Tatari stone..."
The villagers consulted with a stonemason, who refurbished the stone and built a hokora on a small hill at the edge of the village to enshrine it.
　However, when the village had a big catch or a good harvest, the Jizo would sweat white sweat. On the contrary, when there was an earthquake or a tsunami, or when there was a bad catch or a bad harvest, he would sweat black sweat to warn the villagers.
　As word of this spread through the neighboring villages, several miscreants from neighboring villages came to Hagiri Village, hoping to steal the Jizo. Under the cover of night, they tied the Jizo with a rope and carried it out, and when they reached a slope on the outskirts of the village, they placed it on the ground to take a rest and have a smoke.
　In the meantime, the night began to grow light.
　After that, no one came to steal the Jizo from anywhere, and the villagers worshipped the Jizo with even greater reverence.

Nowadays, the festival is held on February 2 every year to pray for safety at sea, satisfaction of a big catch, family safety, prosperity of family business, and traffic safety.