the country of the legend : japan

Hone-Onna literally: bone women  is a being of Japanese legends. In some versions, she is considered a youkai woman who kills mens by extracting their life force or by grabbing their hands and holding them until the victim becomes skeleton himself. In others, Hone onna manifests as a skeletal woman.

in other versions she have the  form of a very beautiful woman, who offers  herself to mens and, during this time, she sucks their vital force, like the succubi of Europe.

the legend say that Not all who die turn into vengeful beings of grudge and jealousy. Hone onna retain an undying love that persists long after their flesh has rotted away, allowing them to continue to be with the object of their affection despite having died. These ghosts appear as they did in life , young, beautiful women in their prime. Only those unclouded by love or with strong religious faith are able to see through their disguise to their true form: rotting, fetid skeletal corpses returned from the grave

At night, a hone onna arises from the grave and wanders to the house of her former lover. Her appearance is a great shock to those who had believed her to be dead. This shock quickly turns into such joy that it blinds them to any clues that something might be wrong. Even the hone onna herself does not know of her condition, as she is driven only by love; she exists as a ghost only to continue the love she had in life. She spends the night and leaves in the morning, and this unholy coupling can continue for days or even weeks without being noticed. Each night she drains some of her lover's life force, and he grows ever sicker and weaker. Without intervention, he will eventually die, joining his lover forever in death's embrace.

Botan doro tells that a young man named Ogiwara Shinnojo, who wandered at night and who meets a young woman named O-Tsuyu. She wears a peony red lantern and Shinnojo immediately falls in love with her. Every evening now, they meet for love and sleep together. The overly curious neighbor secretly slips into the couple's room to observe them. When the bedroom light falls on the neighboring couple almost dies in shock, when he recognizes that sharing Shinnojo is sleeping in his bed with a moving skeleton.

A traditioned oral legend from Akita Prefecture tells the story of a young man who got lost in a snowstorm. Suddenly he saw a young woman carrying a peony red lantern. The woman motioned to him and guided the man to his house. When the man wanted to thank her for the help, the light of the house and the lantern fell on her face and the shocked man recognized her face as a white skeleton skull