Yuki-onna
雪女（ゆきおんな）
A pale woman seen on winter roads, sometimes deadly, sometimes harmless, and never described the same way everywhere.
- 1928
Echigo (Sōgi's sighting)
Folklore record
Nearly transparent woman in a white robe, gone when looked at
新潟県
Yokai of Niigata
4 yokai with records here · Chūbu · View on the map
Records in Niigata
Kamaitachi
鎌鼬（かまいたち）
In Nagano in 1955 the kamaitachi was a weasel so fast that no one had ever seen it — known only by the clean cut it leaves on a stumbling traveler's shin.
- undated
Niigata
Folklore record
Three weasels: one knocks down, one cuts, one salves
Makura-gaeshi
枕返し（まくらがえし）
From Niigata in 1935 to Ibaraki in 1998, people recorded going to sleep facing one way and waking facing the other. The culprit changes from house to house; the reversal never does.
- 1935
Agano and Kashiwazaki
Folklore record
Alcove at your head when you lie down, at your feet when you wake
Futakuchi-onna
二口女（ふたくちおんな）
The 1841 Ehon Hyaku Monogatari made Futakuchi-onna a stepmother punished with a mouth at the back of her head. Folktales of the wife who eats nothing, recorded in the twentieth century, give the same hidden mouth to brides who turn out to be snakes, spiders, and oni.
- 1948
Iwafune District (Murakami)
Folklore record
Snake wife who ate a bale of rice through the back of her head