Fairy Tales (gruesome)

The Yoki Onna ❄️

The Yoki Onna (snow woman) can be found in many japanese stories and fairytales. Many claim to have seen her and many more fear her.

She is described as a beautiful woman with pale, almost see through skin and long straight hair, which has the color of the snow surrounding her. Some stories also describe her hair to be black. From her apperance, she seems very young, not older than 20 years or so, yet the look in her eyes, tells you that she is as old as the universe itself. Her hight varies from tale to tale.

A man living alone on the edge of a bamboo forest, claims to have seen her, standing between the bamboo, during a heavy snow storm. She was wearing a flowy, white kimono and was staring in his direction with a hateful look in her eyes. Her body was that of a young girl, but had the height of about 10'10 ft (3,30 cm). Apparently upon seeing her, the man turned insane and eventualy committed suicide.

The Yoki Onna is born with the snow and dies with it aswell, it alone gives her power. She is able to transform herself into fog or fine powder snow. She floats above the ground and sometimes leaves traces in the form of small deepenings in virgin snow, since she does not have feet. The only imperfection of her otherwise perfect body. Her cold breath detaches you from the living world and one look into her black eyes will melt your brain.

It is said that she would lure people, lost in a snow storm, with her beautiful appearance and then bring them to an unimaginable place. The people are usually never seen again, but if they are, they are found dead, with frozen limbs in heaps of snow in front of their home.

Some say the Yoki Onna would feed on the souls of her innocent victims. Most of them are little children.