If a woman stays at home, she becomes an old woman - Yukiba

It seems like colds are going around as the seasons change. How are you all doing?

The autumn, which was marked by a succession of low pressure systems, is finally over. It will get colder and snowier from now on. As someone who lives in the Hokuriku region, which receives heavy snowfall, I can only pray that the damage will be minimal.

So, this time we will introduce the winter monsters,Snow WomanI would like to introduce ".

First, please take a look at this distinctive visual. It has hands growing out of both sides of its head and one leg. Its teeth are pitch black, I guess...

No, this is the one that appeared in SIREN!

The most distinctive feature of Yukimba is thisAvant-gardeI think it's because of its appearance.

There are other female snow-related monsters, such as yukido and yuki-onna, but although they all have distinctive features such as a low body temperature and pure white skin, most of them do not significantly disfigure their human forms.

However, this Yukiuba looks like the ultimate monster, as if her appearance is the first sign of her strangeness. The legend of her attacking and kidnapping children has not come this far.It feels rightYou probably don't see many monsters.

It can be surmised that the setting of kidnapping a child comes from the fact that it has been passed down as a warning not to let children go outside on snowy days.

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Incidentally, in the neighboring Kumamoto prefecture, there is a legend that a similar one-legged monster called "Ippondatara" appears in the winter. Apparently, it appears on snowy days and leaves one-legged footprints in the snow, but no one has ever seen it.

Perhaps, this monster and Yuki-ubaSame person (monster)It seems that.I think that in winter, there are footprints that appear to be one-legged, and in some areas they are reported as Yukiuba and in other areas they are reported as Ippon Datara.

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There are many yokai that have fewer body parts than humans, such as one leg or one eye, like this yokai. On the other hand, I don't think there are many yokai that have many body parts, unless one of them is "long".

There is a theory that the reason there are so many disabled people is because they were treated as monsters, but I can't help but feel that there is another reason.

For example, they have fewer parts than humans.fromThey were treated as monsters. What if, if you have more body parts than a normal person, you become a god, not a monster?

Gods and monsters were originally the same being, and if they were superior to humans,God, if inferiorMonstersOf course, there are many exceptions, but broadly speaking, the dividing line is their superiority or inferiority compared to humans.

I thought this was one way of thinking about it. In that case, how do you define superiority and inferiority? Yokai are a philosophy.

(Image: Bakemono Emaki)