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Yuki-onna (雪女, Yuki-onna, snow woman) is a spirit found in Japanese folklore.

Yuki-onna appears as a tall, beautiful woman with long hair. Her skin is inhumanly pale or even transparent, causing her to blend into the snowy landscape.

She sometimes wears a white kimono, but other legends describe her as nude, with only her face, hair, and pubic region standing out against the snow. Despite her inhuman beauty, her eyes can strike terror into mortals. She floats across the snow, leaving no footprints (in fact, some tales say she has no feet, a notable feature for many Japanese ghosts), and she can transform into a cloud of mist or snow if she is threatened.

In many stories, Yuki-onna reveals herself to travelers who find themselves trapped in snowstorms and uses her icy breath to leave them as frost-coated corpses. Other legends say that she leads them astray so they simply die of exposure. Other times, she manifests holding a child. When a well-intentioned soul takes the "child" from her, he or she is frozen in place.

阿修羅

阿修羅天龍八部之一，男極醜，女極美，擅戰且好戰。

阿修羅–Ashura意譯為非天、非同類、不端正。阿修羅為印度最古諸神之一，屬於戰鬥一類之鬼神，經常被視為惡神，而與帝釋天（因陀羅神）爭鬥不休，以致出現了修羅場、修羅戰等名詞。