is also known as the long-necked ghost their neck can be greater in length than a giraffe's it can
be of normal thickness or it can be as thin as a baby carrot other than that they look like
human beings without any other significant differences these beautiful half-human and
half-human creatures have vampiric tendencies and they like to murder males more often than females
but surprisingly they're pretty shy demons and prefer to hide their existence from the world
their shyness is the reason why they prefer to show themselves in front of drunk men at night
because they're intoxicated their testimonies are often considered worthless to other people
the word rokurokubi means polyneck these mythological beings often appeared in the
classical literature kaidan and in many japanese essays they gained popularity
in the ido period through japanese folklore tales between 1603 and 1868 a.d they're also
considered to be a symbol for wandering souls or sleepwalking due to their strange behavior
during the night when rokurokubi sleeps her head is able to stretch and go everywhere in the town
they like to drink the oil from lanterns spy on their neighborhood gossips
eat bugs roaches and rodents and sometimes they even like to annoy people by scaring them
unfortunately in the worst cases they sometimes kill people by biting them to death all of these
activities represent the strange nighttime tourism of this yokai next day in the morning
rokurokubi won't remember anything about the crimes she committed the night before
there is also a specific type of rokurokubi known as nukekubi the nuke kubi is considered
to be more aggressive in nature their head can detach from their body and fly through
the air by flapping their little ears if you think nuke kooby are cute then just wait until
this flying vampire head comes to you to bite you and drink your sweet blood people believe
that the spirit of nuke qb is in her head which is connected to her body by an invisible life string
nuke kooby's thirst for blood is so great that she feels an
uncontrollable need to hunt down animals and drink their blood down to the last remaining drop
the question is where do rokurokubis come from what sort of curse afflicts unfortunate families
leading to the presence of rokurokubis well according to mythology rokurokubis are born after
a great sin is committed by a male member of the family it's like karma will hit you back sooner or
later you can't escape from the punishment that will come to your family in the form of a curse
in one story a monk fell in love with a girl and later they were happily married but after
a few years his wife fell ill suffering from a strange disease that needed to be treated
using expensive medicine the monk betrayed his wife by not spending the money on the medicine
and let her die instead after her death he even stole her expensive jewelry to start a successful
new business his evil deeds caused karma to strike him in the form of a rokutokudi curse
in fact it was his own daughter that turned into the curse of kurokubi the monk understood this
was his punishment so he began to visit the grave of his wife to ask for her forgiveness every day
but his daughter never returned to normalcy the worst thing about this curse
is that it's hard to treat and can pass from one generation to daughters of the next generation
there is another strange story of a nuke hooby from the 17th century who was considered to be
an aggressive cousin of rokurokubi she lived in the province of eshizan japan a man who saw
the flying demonic head of a nuke hooby started chasing after it after chasing it for a while
he found the exact location of the woman who was cursed as a nuke kooby she was publicly shamed for
the crimes committed by her demonic head during her unconscious state as a result of the shame
she was broken down emotionally she left her husband shaved her head and committed suicide
being a rokurokubi or nuke kubi was very shameful because the affected families had to face
continuous harassment as well as the embarrassment of living in the town they were also accused of
spreading terror in many occasions cursed women would sadly kill themselves rather than live as
the monsters that hurt people but not all hope is lost according to a story written in 1821
a woman who was suffering from the rokurokubi curse could eat the liver of a white dog as
medicine supposedly when a woman did so her curse was lifted and her illness was gone forever
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