The running buffalo came from the buffaloes the farmers use in their farm work and the buffaloes died from the unknown caused. So, there was a pilgrim monk traveling through the village and suggest to the farmers that they should arrange and perform a ceremony to worship the guardian of the town. And so the villagers got together and worship the guardian of the town to help and cure their buffaloes from the unknown sickness. Everything went well and so they brought their buffaloes to run to be a votive offering and every year on after the end of the harvest