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The Touhou Project character Sekibanki is a rokurokubi. The Murmur from the Alex's Mobs Minecraft modification attacks by extending their neck and spawns in Cherry Groves, a Japanese themed biome. In the video game Tomodachi Collection, a Mii can have a dream where they are a rokurokubi, their neck extending when interacted with by the player.
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.
Rokurokubi is the first to attack, winding her neck around Daimon like a hangman's noose. However, Daimon proves to be too strong for her and simply ties her neck into a knot. The other yōkai try to attack him to much the same effect. Meanwhile, Shinpachiro attempts to ward off the demon using a warded jar.
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 ...
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)
Rokurokubi (ロクロクビ, 1, 2 & 53): Kappa's wife, whose octopus-like head can detach from her body. Posing as a young woman wearing sunglasses who can extend her neck, Rokurokubi used an arcade building at the Tokyo Amusement Park as a front to make a living. However, she kidnapped Seikai and a youth who reminds her of her long dead son.
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]
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (怪談, Kaidan, also Kwaidan (archaic)), often shortened to Kwaidan ("ghost story"), is a 1904 book by Lafcadio Hearn that features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief non-fiction study on insects. [1]