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==Behavior==

==Behavior==

There have been many stories about Yuki-Onna in both written and oral form.  The most common in Japan tells that Yuki-Onna is the ghost of a pregnant woman who has died in the snow, and in these tales she is sometimes seen carrying a baby.  In others, she is known to kidnap children.  In this manner, her behavior is consistent with that of [[ubume]], a ghost of a woman who has died in childbirth.  Another theme common to other [[yokai]] and [[obake|obakemono]], yuki-onna sometimes asks a passerby to hold her child, only for them to find that it has grown incredibly heavy, and thus immobilized, the Yuki-Onna's unfortunate victim freezes to death.  In other stories the Yuki-Onna will kill through her icy breath.   

There have been many stories about Yuki-Onna in both written and oral form.  The most common in Japan tells that Yuki-Onna is the ghost of a pregnant woman who has died in the snow, and in these tales she is sometimes seen carrying a baby.  In others, she is known to kidnap children.  In this manner, her behavior is consistent with that of [[ubume]], a ghost of a woman who has died in childbirth.  Another theme common to other [[yokai]] and [[bakemono]], yuki-onna sometimes asks a passerby to hold her child, only for them to find that it has grown incredibly heavy, and thus immobilized, the Yuki-Onna's unfortunate victim freezes to death.  In other stories the Yuki-Onna will kill through her icy breath.   

Often, a yuki-onna will appear to a human man and, disguising her ghostly nature, become his wife and have many children with him.  These marriages, as is true with most supernatural marriages in Japanese folklore, do not tend to end well.  In some cases the husband disobeys a request from his wife (a common development in many Japanese folktales) which causes her to leave him, or else the yuki-onna will melt as soon as the spring's warmth comes.

Often, a yuki-onna will appear to a human man and, disguising her ghostly nature, become his wife and have many children with him.  These marriages, as is true with most supernatural marriages in Japanese folklore, do not tend to end well.  In some cases the husband disobeys a request from his wife (a common development in many Japanese folktales) which causes her to leave him, or else the yuki-onna will melt as soon as the spring's warmth comes.

==Two Tales of the Yuki-Onna==

==Two Tales of the Yuki-Onna==