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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. 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.

  4. 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 ]

  5. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    Austin Flint murmur: Austin Flint: cardiology: aortic insufficiency: mid-diastolic rumble heard at apex Babinski sign: Joseph Babinski: neurology: abnormal plantar reflex: Kumar SP, Ramasubramanian D (December 2000). "The Babinski sign—a reappraisal". Neurol India. 48 (4): 314– 8. PMID 11146592

  6. Hypersonic effect - Wikipedia

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    The hypersonic effect is a phenomenon reported in a controversial scientific study by Tsutomu Oohashi et al., [3] which claims that, although humans cannot ...

  7. Mythic humanoids - Wikipedia

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    Nāga – Divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (Patala), and can occasionally take human or part-human form. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism mythology. Nukekubi – Rokurokubi whose heads come off and float about. Nuno – Dwarf-like creature in Philippine mythology.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.