Folklore Hone Onna

Hone onna is based on a yōkai with the same name in real life japanese mythology and folklore.

Folklore hone onna. As its name implies it depicts this yōkai as a woman in the form of bones. Over the centuries it has been adapted into puppet shows kabuki plays rakugo and films and remains an influential ghost story today. Even after death these spirits retain memories of their one true love and return to them in an attractive guise that lulls their victims into a sense of complacency and welcome. Hone onna 骨 ほね 女 おんな literally.

The hone onna is a creature with origins in japanese mythology legend and folklore. Perhaps the most famous hone onna is otsuyu from botan dōrō or the tale of the peony lantern. Bone woman is a yōkai depicted in the konjaku gazu zoku hyakki 1779 by toriyama sekien. Hone onna literally translated as bone woman.

This yōkai is also described as a woman whose true form is skeletal a skeleton and it is said to take the disguise of a beautiful woman. Botan dōrō was introduced to japan in the 17th century from an old chinese ghost story. Even after death the hone onna will keep up strong feelings for her lover what will make her rise from her grave every night and wander to his loved s house. As the name says a hone onna is a skeleton disguised as a handsome woman who attracts unnawary men and drains their vital force.

She lures her victim to a spot of her choosing and starts seducing them. Hone onna bone woman appear to their victims as lovely young women. Hone onna the skeleton woman is a yōkai a japanese demon often depicted as an aged female that carries a lantern decorated with botan flowers and visit the house of a man she loved back when she was still alive. Her charm and beauty help to seduce men.

Hone onna is a skeleton with an enormous appetite for sex and death. According to legends she can take two quite different forms the first a beautiful woman of beautiful figure and the second a human skeleton.