
Hone Onna is a beautiful woman who just wants to spend time with you. In their disguise, they are beautiful, they have delicate, doll-like skin and wear beautiful kimonos - but in fact, they are beautiful, they are Yokai (ghosts in Japanese) who trick men into stealing their souls.
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Usually at meetings, Hone-onna would wait until she saw the perfect victim. Then, he heads towards her and flirts, while he invites you to chat along the way so that he can deceive you. After some time has passed, he will try to lure you to his chosen place. If successful, he will start seducing you and convince you to take off his clothes. But once he starts taking off his clothes, you will find that he is just a kimono cloth and the bones are decorated by meat. By the time you realize that you have made a terrible mistake, he will embrace you and suck your life and soul.
People who are not tempted by love and do not have attention to it will not be able to see its illusions, that is, people who have strong religious beliefs. These people see clues about Hone-onna's true form and they will be able to catch a glimpse of the decomposing skeletal corpse if they meet Hone Onna who wants to flirt.
On the one hand, Hone-onna is similar to Succubus - an attractive female demon who seduces men and has sex with them - but at a price. Succubus usually mentally they will kill their lover violently.
Hone-onna is believed to come from the spirit of a person with eternal love. It is similar to Onryo, but in this case, their vengeance and anger are replaced with passion and compassion. The ghosts appeared just like how they used to look before they died - young and beautiful women, in their prime. They look very normal and the same, but they are not what they used to be. They are only driven by love and long to continue the love they once had in their past lives. However, that desire can turn deadly.
At night, Hone-onna has a tendency to rise from her grave, and wander into the home of her former lover. Every night, he spends time with his beloved lover, slowly spending some of their life force in the process. As the days go by, the lover becomes weaker and becomes very sick. If no one else knows and stops Hone-onna, Hone Onna will eventually drain all her strength and kill her lover, forcing her lover to join her in the arms of death. It is similar to Nang Tanee in Thai stories that men are dating ghosts.
Luckily, if her lover is not slowly killed in their sleep, the one who knows can chase away the ghost of Hone Onna with certain prayers and magic - but only if the lover himself allows it. If her lover refuses to listen, then it is much more difficult for us to save her who is in Hone Onna's temptation.
I know, you might be wondering, "Why did they/who had been Hone Onna's lover in real life before, not want to be saved?" Think of it this way: The lover used to love this woman very much, and they formed a strong bond of trust and care before her death. So, when the lover sees her beautiful partner back, it might cause her to ignore the truth for fear of never seeing him again, even if it means death even for him.
"Love makes you do crazy things".
Overall in Urban Legend Japan this can be concluded, if your lover dies and then starts to appear as a ghost in your room every night, you have to tell someone.