Topic summary
Yamauba
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Yama-uba.
Folklore
Yamauba have been portrayed in two different ways. There were tales where men stocking oxen with fish for delivery encountered yamauba at capes and were chased by them, such as the Ushikata Yamauba and the Kuwazu Jobo, as well as a tale where someone who was chased by a yamauba would climb a chain appearing from the skies in order to flee, and when the yamauba tried to make chase by climbing the chain too, she fell to her death into a field of buckwheat, called the "Tendo-san no Kin no Kusari". In these tales, the yamauba is a fearsome monster trying to eat humans.