牛鬼，濡女 · Iwami coast, Ōda, Shimane · 1933
The wet woman hands a fisherman a baby, and the ushi-oni follows
What the record says
A man coming home from night fishing on the Iwami coast met a woman with wet hair on the shore. She put a baby into his arms and vanished. He threw the bundle down and ran, and an ushi-oni came after him; he got as far as a farmhouse and inside.
Our summary in English of the record as catalogued; the original card is in Japanese.
In our articles
Nure-onna
濡女（ぬれおんな）
In Iwami in 1933, a fisherman walking home at night was handed an infant by a wet-haired woman — and when he threw the bundle down and ran, something else came out of the dark after him.
Ushi-oni
牛鬼（うしおに）
Toriyama Sekien's 1776 print shows a bull-like head on a squat clawed body at the water's edge — and tells us nothing else about it.