Yuki-onna is female apparition spirit pirit or 'yōkai' in Japanese folklore.
She sometimes can be encountered on snowy nights, usually described as having white hair or skin, being cold to the touch, or otherwise being similar to the frigid winter landscape....
Yuki-onna appears also appears as a tall, beautiful woman with long black hair and blue lips.However, she can appear like a fierce hag....
Her inhumanly pale or even transparent skin makes her blend into the snowy landscape.
She sometimes wears a white kimono, but other legends describe her as nude, with only her face and hair standing out against the snow....
Despite her inhuman beauty, her eyes can strike terror into mortals.
The yuki-onna is considered the spirit of the snow itself, or perhaps the ghost of a woman who died in a snowstorm, but according to one source, the yuki-jorō of the Oguni area of Yamagata Prefecture is believed to have originally been a princess of the moon...
Tiring of life in the heavens, this lunar maiden descended on a snowfall to investigate the earth, only to discover she could no longer return to the sky.
She still appears on moonlit nights when the snow is deep....
Yuki-onna floats across the snow, leaving no footprints (in fact, some tales say she has no feet, a feature of many Japanese ghosts), and she can transform into a cloud of mist or snow if threatened....
In the legend recounted by Lafcadio Hearn, a woodcutter and his apprentice encounter Yuki-onna in a blizzard.
She takes pity on the boy and allows him to live, but makes him promise that he will never tell anyone about her.
Later, when the boy is grown, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful, pale girl named O-Yuki, or "Snow." They marry and have ten children, and one day the man tells his wife of his encounter with Yuki-onna.
Of course, O-Yuki is Yuki-onna, and she is furious with her husband for having broken his promise.
She spares him again for the sake of the children, but leaves forever, assuring him that he will not be so lucky if he dares reveal the secret again.
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