雪女 - snow woman

One of the most popular figure in Japanese culture is yuki onna (snow woman). We can meet her in Japanese literature and animations. She is shown as a beautiful woman with a pale skin. She has long black hair and red lips. She is often dressed in a white kimono, but sometimes  she is naked. Appears with snow (most with snowstorm). She heralds death. Her kiss makes the man freezes. Sometimes she pushes people from the mountains or give to someone to sustain a child who is so heavy that a person falls and can't stand up.

The most popular story about the yuki onna is a story about two hunters who went hunting in the mountains. In order to avoid the storm , took refuge in a cabin. Father fell asleep quickly, but the son could not sleep. When the snow began to fall harder, the son saw that the door to the house open. He saw a beautiful woman dressed in a white kimono, with black hair, which glided over the ground. She approached to the elder hunter, she bent over him and kissed him. Hunter was killed by freezing. The younger hunter could not find his voice. Yuki onna said she did not kill him because he is young, but he can't tell anyone about what he saw.
Some time later, in his house came a woman who had no where to hide from snow blizzard. She was with him longer, until they fell in love and started a family. After a few years, during a blizzard, hunter remembered the night in the yuki onna killed his father. He told his wife about it. She she started to cry and it turned out that she is a yuki onna. She wanted to make sure that a man will never tell anyone about it. He broke his promise, and she disappeared in the snow and left him alive with their child.