Talk:Hone-Onna Physiology/@comment-26517627-20160113071702/@comment-28914673-20160703132130

Yōkai.com, the website the picture comes from, describes then as more like succubi.

The story goes a bit like this. Deceased women would crawl out of the grave and every night, for three nights, would visit their living partner. Every time they held the man's hand he would become closer to death and on the final night he would join her in the afterlife. They said these women may not have been aware that they were dead, to the confusion of their grieving family members, but holy people like monks and priests could see their true forms.