Yuki-onna

The traditional Japanese snow spirit Yuki-onna appears as a beautiful woman who may carry a baby which she will ask you to hold. When you do, you find the child is really a block of ice which will freeeze you to death. Yuki-onna appears in several traditional stories as well as in popular culture. One of the most vivid Yuki-onna stories was collected by Lafcadio Hearn. It tells of a woodcutter who married Yuki-onna and had 10 children with her.

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