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Kiyohime is an example of a honnari hannya—a demon woman who has attained the maximum level of power. she appears in The Legend of Anchin and Kiyohime, a tale about a handsome visiting priest named Anchin who fell in love with the beautiful Kiyohime but later overcame his passions and refrained from further meetings. Kiyohime became furious at the sudden change of heart and pursued him in rage. Anchin and Kiyohime met at the edge of the Hidaka river, where the priest asked a boatman to help him to cross the river, but told him not to let her cross with his boat. when Kiyohime saw that Anchin was escaping her, she jumped into the river and started to swim after him and transformed into a large serpent or dragon because of her rage. When Anchin saw her coming after him in her monstrous new form, he ran into the temple called Dōjōji and asked the priests for help and they hid him under the bonshō bell of the temple. however, the serpent smelled him hiding inside the bell and started to coil around it. she banged the bell loudly several times with her tail, then gave a great belch of fire so powerful that it melted the bell and killed Anchin. -wiki & yokai.com

Description
Kiyohime is an example of a honnari hannya—a demon woman who has attained the maximum level of power. she appears in The Legend of Anchin and Kiyohime, a tale about a handsome visiting priest named Anchin who fell in love with the beautiful Kiyohime but later overcame his passions and refrained from further meetings. Kiyohime became furious at the sudden change of heart and pursued him in rage. Anchin and Kiyohime met at the edge of the Hidaka river, where the priest asked a boatman to help him to cross the river, but told him not to let her cross with his boat. when Kiyohime saw that Anchin was escaping her, she jumped into the river and started to swim after him and transformed into a large serpent or dragon because of her rage. When Anchin saw her coming after him in her monstrous new form, he ran into the temple called Dōjōji and asked the priests for help and they hid him under the bonshō bell of the temple. however, the serpent smelled him hiding inside the bell and started to coil around it. she banged the bell loudly several times with her tail, then gave a great belch of fire so powerful that it melted the bell and killed Anchin. -wiki & yokai.com