yamanba

Yamanba — an old woman of the mountains who eats people.

Shiwa District5 tales

• No. 1UrikohimeAn old woman picked up a melon that had drifted down a river, and raised the girl born from inside it with great care as Urikohime. But while she was…
• No. 13Nukafuku and KomefukuThe stepmother gave Nukanpuku, the child of the first wife, a straw bag with a broken bottom, while she gave Komenpuku, her own child, a sound bag…
• No. 19YamanbaA young temple boy of a mountain temple met a beautiful woman in the mountains and promised to meet her at night, but the priest saw through her true…
• No. 46The cowherd and the yamanbaWhen night fell on a cowherd in the mountains, he called out half in jest, with his leftover fish soup, "Come and eat this," and a yamanba, an old…
• No. 50The wife who ate nothingA single man was working in the mountains, and when he told his companions that he wanted a wife who ate nothing, such a woman appeared and became…