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- Look up rokurokubi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rokurokubi (ろくろ首, 轆轤首) is a type of ****anese yōkai (apparition). They look almost completely like...
- Rokurokubi (ろくろ首) is a tale from Lafcadio Hearn’s Kwaidan. It features a monster by the same name (actually a classification error took place; in reality...
- one-legged Kasa-obake, the frightening ****akuchi-onna, the long-necked Rokurokubi, the clay monster Nuppeppō and the wise Abura-sumashi. The yōkai do not...
- and folklore, ****akuchi-onna belongs to the same class of stories as rokurokubi, kuchisake-onna and yama-uba, women afflicted with a curse or supernatural...
- part-human form. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism mythology. NukekubiRokurokubi whose heads come off and float about. Nuno – Dwarf-like creature in Philippine...
- long-necked rokurokubi depicted in play images in the Edo period are certainly not strange. There are those who think that they are related to the rokurokubi, and...
- death of a loved one. Flying Head Manananggal Soucouyant Tlahuelpuchi Rokurokubi Constantino Contreras 2000 (in Spanish). Unidad temática y variedad textual:...
- she washes her hair and reacts violently to those who bother her. The rokurokubi is a close relative to the nure-onna. 多田克己 (2000). 京極夏彦・多田克己編 (ed.). 妖怪図巻...
- head detaches from its body, often confused with the much more peaceful rokurokubi, whose neck merely extends indefinitely. Nuppeppō An animated lump of...
- Mapuche creature that also detaches its head Krasue Langsuyar Leyak Polong Rokurokubi and Nukekubi, ****anese yokai which take the form of a woman with either...