History
At some point, a yamanba took up residence of the inn and began luring in victims with the help of a sarugami. Sometime later, as a heavy snowstorm bore down upon the witcher / ronin Geralt, he stumbled upon the luxurious inn with a resplendent hot spring. It was run by a beautiful, single innkeeper who begged him to stay and offered him every hospitality. Luckily for Geralt, he never let his guard completely down. If he had actually been asleep when the yamanba revealed her true form, he might have wound up as just another dried skeleton on the floor of the witch's kitchen.