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  2. Rokurokubi - Wikipedia

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    Rokurokubi (ろくろ首, 轆轤首) is a type of Japanese yōkai (apparition). They look almost completely like humans with some differences. There is a type whose neck stretches and another whose head detaches and flies around freely (nukekubi). The Rokurokubi appear in classical kaidan (spirit tales) and in yōkai works. [1]

  3. Rokurokubi (folktale) - Wikipedia

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    Sleep eludes him and he is getting a drink when he finds five bodies on the floor, without heads. He assumes they are rokurokubi, but they are more likely nukekubi (Hearn's mistake or Kwairyō's, we don't know for sure). A rokurokubi's head does not detach from the body but merely travels far from it on the end of an infinitely extendable neck.

  4. List of legendary creatures from Japan - Wikipedia

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    A vicious humanlike monster whose head detaches from its body, often confused with the much more peaceful rokurokubi, whose neck merely extends indefinitely. Nunakawahime A kami who helps with singing, blessings of children and easy childbirth. She is the wife of Ōkuninushi and the mother of Ajisukitakahikone, Takeminakata and Kotoshironushi ...

  5. Japanese folktales - Wikipedia

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    A representative sampling of Japanese folklore would definitely include the quintessential Momotarō (Peach Boy), and perhaps other folktales listed among the so-called "five great fairy tales" (五大昔話, Go-dai Mukashi banashi): [3] the battle between The Crab and the Monkey, Shita-kiri Suzume (Tongue-cut sparrow), Hanasaka Jiisan (Flower-blooming old man), and Kachi-kachi Yama.

  6. Nure-onna - Wikipedia

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    Instead, the bundle becomes incredibly heavy and prevents the victim from fleeing. She then uses her long, snake-like tongue to suck all the blood from her victim's body. In other stories, a nure-onna is simply seeking solitude as she washes her hair and reacts violently to those who bother her. The rokurokubi is a close relative to the nure-onna.

  7. List of Kaiketsu Zorori characters - Wikipedia

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    Rokurokubi (ろくろくび, Rokurokubi) Junk food made her neck fat. Kumo onna (クモおんな, Kumo onna, Spider woman) Pollution made her webs less sticky and more breakable. She eats nattou to help solve this. Karakasa (カラカサ, Karakasa) Her floral pattern looks like eyes in the dark. Ittan-momen (一反木綿, Ittan-momen)

  8. Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare - Wikipedia

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    In 2021 Arrow Films released a Blu-ray box set [22] (available as both Region B and Region A) under their Arrow Video label containing the entirety of the Yokai Monsters trilogy in high definition (with Spook Warfare being newly restored in 4K by Kadokawa Pictures) as well as the 2005 Takashi Miike directed remake of Spook Warfare, The Great ...

  9. Inunaki Village - Wikipedia

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    An aerial photo of Inunakidani before the construction of Inunaki Dam. According to Edo Period historical records, the real Inunaki Village (), officially referred to as Inunakidani Village (犬鳴谷村), was established by a dispatch group of the Fukuoka Domain in