As it turns to dusk, she meets a young boy named Haku, who tells her to leave at once. Puzzled, she runs to get her parents, but they are still eating and to her horror have turned into pigs. Unable to leave -- the river bed is now filled with water -- she is comforted and helped by Haku, who escorts her through a strange realm of "ghosts and goblins," a world of wondrous creatures who have come to bathe and be refeshed in the bathhouse run by an old woman named Yubāba (yu = "hot water," bāba = "old woman").
comforted