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[Mother? No, it's a scout] Nune-Onna [Yokai Encyclopedia]

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   Name and Kanji The name is   "Nure-Onna " . Written in kanji, it is  "濡れ女" . "濡れ(Nure)"   means wet and   "女(Onna)"   means woman. My sweet baby♡ Nure-Onna is a yokai that appears as a woman holding a baby by the water. Then she asks a passerby to hold the baby . Relationship with the Iso-Onna Because of their similarity in appearance and location of appearance to the Iso-Onna introduced in this blog, they are sometimes treated as the same thing. The figure is a woman on the upper chest and a snake on the lower body, and the place of appearance is the sea of Shimane Prefecture . fellow mothers Like Ubume , it is a yokai that appears with a child, and they have many things in common, such as telling people to carry their children and the child they carry turning to stone . However, the character of the Ubume, who wishes for the resurrection of her children, and the Nure-Onna, who uses her children to attack people, are completely opposite. H