Rokuro-kubi

First of the Yokai series which I'll be doing. This one's for ~sadakina2 which I've promised since... a year ago xD

Walkthrough Part 1 Part 2


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Rokuro-kubi ( ろくろ首 )

Rokuro-kubi are yōkai that used to be ordinary human beings, but somehow they have come to suffer from a ghostly affliction that allows their heads to float away from their bodies, their necks stretching in between like a fleshy garden hose, sometimes indefinitely. Usually they are women.

The rokuro-kubi's condition is sometimes brought about by a curse, and sometimes as a supernatural manifestation of the person's desires. The neck-stretching almost always happens at night, often while the rokuro-kubi sleeps, and the freed head may wander through the house perpetrating such obake-esque mischief as sucking the life energy out of people and animals, and licking up the oil of andon lamps. Some of them simply wind up using lintels high above doors and windows as their pillows, and scaring the living daylights out of anyone who happens to peek in on them.

Rokuro-kubi women are often unlucky in love, frightening their new husbands away when the men discover their wives' unnerving nocturnal abilities.

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Credits:

_{From deviantArt:}

Face / neck: _{Two seperate photos from ~sadakina2}

Calligraphy character ( yume - 夢 ): [link] _=resurgere

Burnt skin color: [link] _=resurgere

Veins: [link] <sub>~Angelrat-Stock


From Flickr:</sub>

Geisha hair / kimono: [link] _{Lee-Sean Huang}

Background: [link] _{Sheila Thomson}


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Burnt skin texture: _{Thumbprint macro shot provided by dear ~Lyallity}

Calligraphy characters ( sorrowful - 悲しい ): _{Drawn in photoshop}