Rokurokubi - Japanese Folklore

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rokurokubi ( , rokurokubi?) are y kai found in Japanese folklore. They look like normal human beings by day, but at night they gain the ability to stretch their necks to great lengths. They can also change their faces to those of terrifying oni to better scare mortals.In their daytime human forms, rokurokubi often live undetected and may even take mortal spouses. Many rokurokubi become so accustomed to such a life that they take great pains to keep their demonic forms secret. They are tricksters by nature, however, and the urge to frighten and spy on human beings is hard to resist. Some rokurokubi thus resort to revealing themselves only to drunkards, fools, the sleeping, or the blind in order to satisfy these urges. Other rokurokubi have no such compunctions and go about frightening mortals with abandon.

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• Assisted by: Oscar Sundara (Editor)
• Publisher: Betascript Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2012
• EAN: 9786138680451
• ISBN: 9786138680451
• No. of pages: 196
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