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Tsurara-onna


Tsurara-onna (つらら女, "icicle woman") is a Japanese folklore. It is a tale about an icicle that became a human woman, so it is often confused with yuki-onna.

A single man was looking at the icicles hanging under the eaves of his home and sighed saying "I'd like a wife as beautiful as these icicles," and just as he wished, a beautiful woman appeared who wanted to be his wife. This woman was an incarnation of an icicle, and there are variations on how this plays out.

In many places, there are similar folktales about how a single man charmed by the beauty of icicles would have a woman suddenly appear wishing to be his wife who in the end was actually an icicle, and how those stories play out in the end differ.


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