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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. Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare - Wikipedia

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    Like Futakuchi-onna, Rokurokubi is a cursed woman whose appearance is generally human, but whose curse causes disturbing distension of the neck. Rokurokubi is generally described as being harmless, but frightful: often a vengeful spirit seeking revenge for a discretion against them. [ 13 ]

  4. 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.

  5. Futakuchi-onna - Wikipedia

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    An image of futakuchi-onna from the Ehon Hyaku Monogatari. Futakuchi-onna (ふたくちおんな - 二口女, "two-mouthed woman") is a type of yōkai or Japanese monster.She is characterized by her two mouths – a normal one located on her face and a second one on the back of the head beneath the hair.

  6. The Great Yokai War - Wikipedia

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    In a rage, Tadashi battles Agi before she is called back by Katō to begin the final phase by joining with Yomotsumono. Despite Tadashi's attempts, Katō outmatches him. Kawahime attempts to protect the boy, stating that while she hates humans due to them abandoning her, she has no desire for revenge as she considers it a human emotion.

  7. Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters - Wikipedia

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    A rich landowner intends to tear down a local shrine and other houses to build a brothel. He holds a Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai ceremony during which various tales of yōkai are told, such as the tales of kasa-obake (an umbrella tsukumogami), and a long-necked rokurokubi. However, the landowner omits the purification ceremony at the end to ward ...

  8. 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)

  9. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things - Wikipedia

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    Butterflies: Personification of the human soul. Mosquitoes: Karmic reincarnation of jealous or greedy people in the form of Jiki-ketsu-gaki or "blood-drinking pretas". Ants: Mankind's superior in terms of chastity, ethics, social structure, longevity and evolution.