Yubaba is an extremely powerful witch. Yubaba is extremely skilled at manipulating supernatural energies that enabled him to alter the fabric of reality and defy the laws of nature. In fact, it appears that she was notorious in the spirit world for her magical abilities. Yubaba had the ability to focus on other beings and determine their location and position. She was also the first to intuitively realize that there was more to "stinky spirit" than meets the eye, and eventually managed to identify it as a river spirit.