Snow woman
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Snow woman may refer to:
Folklore
A female yeti (abominable snowwoman); a crytozoologic and mythological creature of the Himalayas
Yuki-onna (Japanese: 雪女, lit. 'snow-woman'), a Japanese folkloric creature
Arts and entertainment
Snow woman, a monster; see List of female monsters in literature
Snow Woman (story; Japanese: ゆきおんな, romanized: Yuki-onna), a story in the Tokyo Kodomo Club
The Snow Women (novella), a 1970 sword-and-sorcery novella by Fritz Leiber
The Snow Woman (novel), a 1968 novel by Stella Gibbons
The Snow Woman (film; Japanese: 怪談雪女郎, romanized: Kaidan Yukijorō, lit. 'Ghost Story of the Snow Woman'), a 1968 Japanese horror film
"Snow Woman" (TV episode; Japanese: 雪ん子, romanized: Yukin-ko), a 1968 episode 68 of GeGeGe no Kitarō (1968 TV series)
"The Snow Woman" part 1,2,3 (TV episodes; Japanese: 雪女, romanized: Yukion'na), several 2010s episodes of Folktales from Japan
Other uses
snowwoman (sculpture), a female-form snowman, a type of anthropomorphic snow sculpture
Snøkjerringa Hill (Norwegian: Snowwoman Hill), Ahlmann Ridge, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
See also
Snežana (Cyrillic: Снежана; transliterated: Snezhana; lit.
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