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MyLuckyHaiku

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  1. So for some background:

    When I was a kid I was really into myths, urban legends, and cryptids. (Mostly cryptids) So at my local library I read every book on cryptids I could, and one book stood out (I don’t remember the name though) if I recall, there was the basic stuff like Bigfoot and Nessie, but there was one entry about Yuki Onna, something I’d never heard of at the time and it intrigued me. The version that was in the book was something like this:

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    Yuki Onna (The version I heard about long ago)

    Yuki Onna was a kind of Japanese snow spirit that appeared on very snowy nights in the mountains, the thing that stood out to me most though was that she would wave around a wand and ask for water, if splashed with cold water, she would swell, if warm, she would vanish or melt.

    She took the form of a very beautiful woman with long hair and either wore thin clothes or nothing at all, and her skin was light blue or white.

    This is from memory so it may be slightly inaccurate, but I checked Wikipedia and it seems to match somewhat.

    There are many variations of the myth, and I’m too lazy to list all of them, so I’d advise reading the Wikipedia article or something. Here.

     

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