Harmless and Benign · Yokai

Hone-Onna

Two stories surround this yokia. One states that it’s the remains/spirt/ghost an older women who died and comes back to visit her lovers. She would appear to them as a beautiful women but to others she would appear as a skeleton. In the other story, while the women was alive, people said she was ugly… and when she died, she felt beautiful as skeleton and she would walk around to show off her bones.

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